caudex

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English

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Etymology

From Latin caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”); compare codex.

Pronunciation

Noun

caudex (plural caudices or caudexes)

  1. (botany) An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.

Related terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “‖caudex” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Most likely to be connected to cūdō (“I beat, strike”), both deriving from the same dental extension of Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂-, *keh₂w- (“to beat, hew, chop”), and so originally meant “that which has been cleaved off”. See also cauda (“tail”). Another possibility is a relation to caulis (“stalk”), if this is an l-stem derivative of the same ultimate root, perhaps *ḱawh₁- (“to swell; hollow”) (whence cavus) if both words originally meant “hollow stem”.

An older idea connected it to Latin caupulus (“a kind of small boat”), based on the observation that similar words meaning “boat” and “tree” are often related in Indo-European languages, as many Indo-European peoples used hollowed out trees as boats and skiffs.

Pronunciation

Noun

caudex m (genitive caudicis); third declension

  1. tree trunk, stump
  2. bollard; post
  3. book, writing; notebook, account book
  4. (derogatory) blockhead, idiot
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caudex caudicēs
Genitive caudicis caudicum
Dative caudicī caudicibus
Accusative caudicem caudicēs
Ablative caudice caudicibus
Vocative caudex caudicēs

Synonyms

  • (bollard, blockhead, idiot): gurdus

Derived terms

Descendants

See also cōdex.

  • → Catalan: càudex
  • → Portuguese: cáudice

References

  • “caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caudex 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)
  • caudex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “caudex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caudex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99
  2. ^ Schrader, Otto (1890) Frank Byron Jevons, transl., Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples: a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture, London: Charles Griffin and Company, page 278
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