caudex
English
Etymology
From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CAUDEX caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”)Category:English undefined derivations#CAUDEX; compare codex.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
caudex (plural caudices or caudexes)Category:English lemmas#CAUDEXCategory:English nouns#CAUDEXCategory:English countable nouns#CAUDEXCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#CAUDEXCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CAUDEXCategory:Pages with entries#CAUDEXCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CAUDEX[1]
- (botanyCategory:en:Botany#CAUDEX)[1] An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.
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References
Category:en:Plant anatomy#CAUDEXLatin
Alternative forms
Etymology
UncertainCategory:Latin terms with unknown etymologies#CAUDEX. Most likely to be connected to cūdō (“I beat, strike”), both deriving from the same dental extension of Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CAUDEX *kewh₂-, *keh₂w- (“to beat, hew, chop”),[1] 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.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
caudex m (genitive caudicis)Category:Latin lemmas#CAUDEXCategory:Latin nouns#CAUDEXCategory:Latin third declension nouns#CAUDEXCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the third declension#CAUDEXCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CAUDEXCategory:Latin masculine nouns#CAUDEXCategory:Pages with entries#CAUDEXCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CAUDEX; third declension
- tree trunk, stump
- bollard; post
- book, writing; notebook, account book
- (derogatoryCategory:Latin derogatory terms#CAUDEX) blockhead, idiot
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (bollard, blockhead, idiot): gurdus
Derived terms
- caudica (“a raft”)
- caudicālis
- caudicārius
- caudiceus
Descendants
See also cōdexCategory:Latin links with redundant alt parameters#CAUDEXCategory:Latin links with manual fragments#CAUDEX.
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
Further reading
- “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