# coda
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.də/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkoʊ.də/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊdə
* Homophone: coder (non-rhotic)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”), from Latin cauda. Doublet of queue.

#### Noun

coda (plural codas)
* (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
    Synonym: finale
    Coordinate terms: chorus, refrain
* (phonology) The optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants.
    Synonym: auslaut
    Antonyms: anlaut, onset
    Holonyms: rime, syllable
    Coordinate term: inlaut
    The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.
* (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
* (figurative) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
** 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:Downstairs, a little later, in the drawing room, the coda of the party was unwinding, and Gerald opening new bottles of champagne as though he made no distinction between the boring drunks who "sat," and the knowing few of the inner circle, gathered round the empty marble fireplace.
** 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
    In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.
** 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."

##### Derived terms

* codaless
* codalike
* d.c. al coda

##### Translations
#### See also

* vowel

#### Further reading

* Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

coda (plural codas)
* Alternative spelling of CODA

### Anagrams

* ACOD, Coad, DOAC, Daco-

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

### Noun

coda f (plural codas)
* tail

## Corsican
### Noun

coda f
* tail

### References

* “coda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda. Doublet of queue.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.da/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coda f (plural codas)
* (music) coda
* (phonology) a syllable coda
    Coordinate terms: attaque, noyau

### Verb

coda
* third-person singular past historic of coder

### Further reading

* “coda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɔd̪ˠə]

### Noun

coda f
* genitive singular of cuid

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.da/
* Rhymes: -oda
* Hyphenation: có‧da
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coda f (plural code)
* tail
* queue; line
    Synonym: fila
* (music) coda
    Synonym: (diminutive) codetta
    Antonyms: introduzione, (music) ouverture, (music) preludio
* (rail transport, only singular, uncountable) end (of a train), the last car(s)
    Antonym: testa
    La prima classe è in coda al treno ― The first class is at the end of the train

#### Derived terms

* coda di rospo

#### Related terms

* accodare / accodarsi
* codazzo
* codetta
* codina, codino, codinzolo
* codona, codone
* scodare
* scodinzolare

### Anagrams

* cado, daco

## Latin
### Etymology

Showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkoː.da/, [ˈkoːd̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.da/, [ˈkɔːd̪ä]

### Noun

cōda f (genitive cōdae); first declension
* Alternative form of cauda

#### Usage notes

* Found in some Classical Latin texts alongside cauda, though uncommon.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: cò, coa, coda
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: coadã, code
** Megleno-Romanian: coadă
** Romanian: coadă
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: cuda
** >? Dalmatian: cauda
** Italian: coda
*** → English: coda
*** → German: Coda
*** → French: coda
** Sicilian: cuda
** Venetan: cóa
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: code
** Romansch: cua
* Gallo-Italic:
** Lombard: coa, cua
** Piedmontese: coa
** Romagnol: códa
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: cova
** Occitan: coa
** Old Catalan: coa
*** Catalan: cua, coa ⇒ coet
**** → Spanish: cohete
**** → Galician: cúa
** Old French: coe, cue, keue
*** Bourguignon: coue
*** Champenois: coue
*** Franc-Comtois: quoûe
*** Middle French: queu, cueue
**** French: queue
**** English: queue, cue (partly through Anglo-Norman)
*** Picard: queue
*** Poitevin-Saintongeais: coue
*** Walloon: cawe
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: coda
** Old Galician-Portuguese: cola
*** Galician: cola
*** Portuguese: cola
** Spanish: cola

### References

* “coda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “coda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* coda 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)
* coda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French coder.

### Verb

a coda (third-person singular present codează, past participle codat) 1st conjugation
* to code, to encode

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoda/ [ˈko.ð̞a]
* Rhymes: -oda
* Syllabification: co‧da

### Noun

coda f (plural codas)
* (music) coda
* (phonology) coda

### Adjective

coda f
* feminine singular of codo

### Further reading

* “coda”, 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

## Swedish
### Noun

coda c
* (music) coda

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | coda | codas |
| singular | definite | codan | codans |
| plural | indefinite | codor | codors |
| plural | definite | codorna | codornas |