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See also: CODA, códa, and côda

English

WOTD – 14 December 2008

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

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 […], London: Picador, →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."
  6. A series of clicks used by sperm whales for communicating with each other.
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Etymology 2

Noun

coda (plural codas)

  1. Alternative spelling of CODA.

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

  1. tail

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cua.

Noun

coda f (plural codes)

  1. (music, phonology) coda

Hypernyms

Holonyms

Further reading

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/
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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

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Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

coda f

  1. genitive singular of cuid

Mutation

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

Pronunciation

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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.

More information singular, plural ...

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: cò, coa, coda
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

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.
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coder.

Verb

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

  1. to code, to encode

Conjugation

    conjugation of coda (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoda/ [ˈko.ð̞a]
  • Rhymes: -oda
  • Syllabification: co‧da

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

coda f

  1. feminine singular of codo

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Swedish

Noun

coda c

  1. (music) coda

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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