# cauda
## English
### Noun

cauda (plural caudae)
* (anatomy) Short for cauda equina.

### See also

* bagna cauda
* cauda galli

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin cauda, either directly (with preservation of /au̯/) or, more likely, via Vulgar Latin cōda (the source of all other Romance forms), with /'oː/ > /au̯/; cf. Latin nōmen > Dalmatian naum.

### Noun

cauda f
* tail

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”), from *keh₂w-. Compare cūdō (“to beat, hammer”), caudex (“tree trunk, stump”), Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkau̯.da/, [ˈkäu̯d̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkau̯.da/, [ˈkäːu̯d̪ä]

### Noun

cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension
* tail (animal appendage)
    Synonym: pēnis (archaic)
    Antonym: caput
    Alternative form: cōda

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cauda illa
* caudālis (“having a tail; caudal”)
* caudam trahere
* caudātus (“tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated”) (Medieval Latin)
* caudiformis

#### Descendants

* Vulgar Latin: cōda (see there for further descendants)
* >? Dalmatian: cauda (note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda)
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: cauda
** Portuguese: cauda
* → Spanish: cauda

### References

* “cauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “cauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* cauda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* cauda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99
* ↑ Study of Language, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1994

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, borrowed from Latin cauda. Doublet of cola, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaw.dɐ/ [ˈkaʊ̯.dɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaw.dɐ/ [ˈkaʊ̯.dɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaw.da/ [ˈkaʊ̯.da]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkaw.dɐ/ [ˈkaw.ðɐ]
* Homophone: calda (Brazil)
* Rhymes: -awdɐ
* Hyphenation: cau‧da

### Noun

cauda f (plural caudas)
* tail (posterior appendage or feathers of some animals)
    Synonyms: (archaic) coda, rabo
* tail; tail end (posterior part or appendage of an object)
** (clothing) the part of a dress that is dragged on the floor
** (aviation) tail; empennage (rear structure of an aircraft)
    Synonym: empenagem
** (astronomy) tail (stream of dust as gases blown from a comet)
** (typography, informal) tail; descender (stroke below the baseline of a letter)
* (figurative) consequences

#### Related terms

* caudal
* coda
* cola

### Further reading

* “cauda” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkauda/ [ˈkau̯.ð̞a]
* Rhymes: -auda
* Syllabification: cau‧da

### Noun

cauda f (plural caudas)
* tail (of a garment)

### Further reading

* “cauda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10