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Latin
Etymology
Used by Plautus to describe the material a box or chest is made of, which suggests derivation from caudex (“tree trunk, block of wood”), but the form suggests derivation from cauda (“tail”) + -eus (“-en, -y”). Compare also cōdēta, used to refer to a place where some type of plant grew. All of these words in caud-/cōd- are probably derived from a common root which can be reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d- (“cleaved, separate”),[1] from *keh₂w-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
caudeus (feminine caudea, neuter caudeum); first/second-declension adjective
- wooden,[2] made of planks or logs[3]
- (uncertain) made from rushes[4] or from some tail-formed plant[1]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
- ^ “caudeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “caudeus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- ^ caudeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.