Definitions for cauda

cauda cau·da

Spelling: [kou-duh, kaw-]
IPA: /ˈkaʊ də, ˈkɔ-/

Cauda is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in cauda (aacdu).

Definitions for cauda

noun

  1. a tail or taillike appendage.

Origin of cauda

1690-1700; Latin: tail

Examples for cauda

Here the frons is connected with the cauda, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of concatenatio.

cauda plerumque longa, cuneata, radiis mollibus, decompositis.

In view of the extreme interest of these cases I will shortly detail one other in which the cauda equina alone was affected.

They are, however, found already in Provenal poetry, and consist of the forehead (frons) and the tail or veer (cauda).

In many stanzas the first and the last part (frons and cauda) are anisometrical.

In cauda venenum—Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail.

Poetry, p. 47; it consists of two six-lined, common tail-rhyme stanzas (the pedes), and a shortened one (forming the cauda).

We can remember well enough when we donned the ‘cauda virilis,’ but not when we left off petticoats.

Only in the last-mentioned poem does the cauda consist of six two-beat sectional verses.

As to the rhythmical structure of the half-verses used in the cauda of the stanza cf. the explanations given in 64.

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