cauda
[kou-duh, kaw-]
- a tail or taillike appendage.
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Origin of cauda
1690–1700; < Latin: tail
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We can remember well enough when we donned the ‘cauda virilis,’ but not when we left off petticoats.
Tracks of a Rolling StoneHenry J. Coke
Only in the last-mentioned poem does the cauda consist of six two-beat sectional verses.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
Here the frons is connected with the cauda, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of concatenatio.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
They are, however, found already in Provenal poetry, and consist of the forehead (frons) and the tail or veer (cauda).
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
As to the rhythmical structure of the half-verses used in the cauda of the stanza cf. the explanations given in 64.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
cauda
- zoology the area behind the anus of an animal; tail
- anatomy
- any tail-like structure
- the posterior part of an organ
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Word Origin
Latin: tail
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cauda
(kô′də)- A tail or taillike structure, or a tapering or elongated extremity of an organ or other part.
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