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cauda

cauda · f

the tail

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De Scorpiace 3 · 3.77/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Naturalis Historia 117 · 2.95/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cauda — Lewis & Short

cauda (also cōda, like codex, plostrum, etc., Varr. ap. ae, f.,

Non. p. 86, 19; id. R. R. 2, 7, 5; Petr. 44, 12; Fest. p. 178, 29; Paul. ex Fest. p. 38, 17 Müll.) [etym. dub.; cf. codex],

I the tail of animals, Lucr. 2, 806; 3, 658; Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 222; id. Fin. 3, 5, 18; Plin. 11, 50, 111, § 264; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 3; 2, 5, 8.—

2 Prov.

a Caudam jactare popello, to flatter, fawn upon (the figure taken from dogs), Pers. 4, 15.—

b Caudam trahere, to have a tail stuck on in mockery, to be made a fool of, Hor. S. 2, 3, 53; Vell. 2, 83, 3; cf.: vitium bono viro quasi caudam turpissimam apponere, Lact. 6, 18, 16. —*

3 In a pun, the end of the word, or the tail of the animal: Verris, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 191.—

II Transf.: membrum virile, Hor. S. 1, 2, 45; 2, 7, 49.—

III Trop., of the addition to the name Verres, making it Verrucius: videtis extremam partem nominis, codam illam Verrinam tamquam in luto demersam in liturā, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 191.

In the wild

caudam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.14.12
caudam Pliny the Younger, Letters 3.9.11
caudamque Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.2.45
caudam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.5.p3
cauda Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.38.p3
caudam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.41

6 of 255 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cauda (scan p. 520; entry #8495).

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