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caudex1

caudex1 · m

The trunk of a tree

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What it meant

1. caudex — Lewis & Short

caudex, ĭcis, m. (more recent orthography cōdex) [etym. dub.; cf. cauda].

I The trunk of a tree, the stock, stem (rare).

(a) Caudex, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 121; 12, 15, 34, § 67; Verg. G. 2, 30 et saep.—

(b) Codex, Ov. M. 12, 432; Col. 4, 8, 2; 5, 6, 21.— Hence,

B The block of wood to which one was bound for punishment: codex, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 39; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 44; Juv. 2, 57. —

C A term of reproach, block, dolt, blockhead: caudex, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 4; Petr. 74.—

II Inpartic.

A A block of wood split or sawn into planks, leaves or tablets and fastened together: quia plurium tabularum contextus caudex apud antiquos vocatur, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 4: quod antiqui pluris tabulas conjunctas codices dicebant, Varr. ap. Non. p. 535, 20.—Hence,

B (Since the ancients orig. wrote upon tablets of wood smeared with wax.) A book, a writing (its leaves were not, like the volumina, rolled within one another, but, like those of our books, lay over one another; cf. Dict. of Antiq.).

(a) Caudex, Cato ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Ant. 1, 2.—

(b) Codex, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; id. Clu. 33, 91; Quint. 10, 3, 28; Dig. 32, 1, 52 al.—

C Esp. of an accountbook and particularly of a ledger (while adversaria signifies the waste-book; hence only the former was of any validity in law): non habere se hoc nomen (this item) in codice accepti et expensi relatum confitetur: sed in adversariis patere contendit, etc., Cic. Rosc. Com. 2, 5; v. the passage in connection; cf. id. ib. 3, 9: in codicis extremā cerā (i. e. upon the last tablet), Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36. § 92: referre in codicem, id. Sull. 15, 44.—

D A code of laws: Codex Theodosianus, Justinianus, etc.; cf. Dict. of Antiq. s. v.

2. Caudex — Lewis & Short

Caudex, cis, m.,

I a Roman cognomen: App. Claudius Caudex, consul A. U. C. 490, B. C. 264, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 4; Aur. Vict. 37.

3. caudex — Walde–Hofmann

caudex, codex, -icis m. , Baumstamm, Klotz, Züchtigangsblodk" meist -au-); ,zu Schreibtafeln gespaltenes Holz (Sen. dial. 10, 13, 4), otizbuch" (meist -ü-; seit Plaut, rom. „Buch*), eödieillus, -à m. „kleiner Stamm, Schreibtüfelchen* (seit Cato; códiculus, caudieulus spätl.), caudica, -ae f. „ein aus einem Baumstamm gemachter Kahn* (vgl. trabica : trabs, Wölfflin ALL. 9, 290; seit Gell, vl. rom., ndvis cödicäria … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caudex, p. 218]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caudex (scan pp. 218-219; entry #599). Root candidates: *geu-, *skayada-, *skauni-.

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