coda

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.də/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdə
• Homophone: coder (in non-rhotic dialects)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coda (plural codas)

2. (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

   Synonym: finale

   Coordinate terms: chorus, refrain

3. (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.

4. (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.
5. (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

• d.c. al coda

Translations

See also

Further reading

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

coda (plural codas)

1. Alternative spelling of CODA

Anagrams

• ACOD, Coad, DOAC, Daco-

Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. tail

Corsican

Noun

coda f

1. tail

References

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda. Doublet of queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.da/

• Audio

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Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. (music) coda
2. (phonology) a syllable coda

   Coordinate terms: attaque, noyau

Verb

coda

1. third-person singular past historic of coder

Further reading

• “coda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.da/
• Rhymes: -oda
• Hyphenation: có‧da

• Audio

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Noun

coda f (plural code)

1. tail
2. queue; line

   Synonym: fila

3. (music) coda

   Synonym: (diminutive) codetta

   Antonyms: introduzione, (music) ouverture, (music) preludio

4. (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
• codona, codone
• scodare
• scodinzolare

Anagrams

• cado, daco

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.da/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.da/,

Noun

cōda f (genitive cōdae); first declension

1. Alternative form of cauda

Usage notes

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

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 conj.

1. to code, to encode

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoda/
• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: co‧da

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. (music) coda
2. (phonology) coda

Adjective

coda f

1. feminine singular of codo

Further reading

• “coda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

coda c

1. (music) coda

Declension