coda

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.də/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdə
• Homophone: coder (in non-rhotic dialects)

coda (plural codas)

1. (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

   Synonym: finale

   Coordinate terms: chorus, refrain

2. (phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.

   Synonym: auslaut

   Antonym: onset

   Coordinate terms: onset, nucleus, rime

   The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.

3. (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
4. (figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,

     Downstairs, a little later, in the drawing room, the coda of the party was unwinding, and Gerald opening new bottles of champagne as though he made no distinction between the boring drunks who "sat," and the knowing few of the inner circle, gathered round the empty marble fireplace.

   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)

     In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.

5. Alternative spelling of CODA

• vowel

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ACOD, Coad, Daco-

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

coda f (plural codas)

1. tail

Borrowed from Italian coda. Doublet of queue.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.da/

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coda f (plural codas)

1. (music) coda
2. (phonology) a syllable coda

   Antonyms: attaque, noyau

coda

1. third-person singular past historic of coder

• “coda” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔd̪ˠə]

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

From Vulgar Latin coda, variant of Latin cauda.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoda]

coda f (plural code)

1. tail
2. queue; line

   Synonym: fila

3. (music) coda

   Synonym: codetta (diminutive)

   Antonyms: introduzione, ouverture (music), preludio (music)

4. (rail transport, only singular, uncountable) end (of a train), the last car(s)

   Antonym: testa

   La prima classe è in coda al treno ― The first class is at the end of the train

• coda di rospo

• accodare / accodarsi
• codazzo
• codetta
• codina, codino
• codona, codone
• scodare
• scodinzolare

• cado

Alternative form of cauda. For descendants, see there.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.da/

cōda f (genitive cōdae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) tail

Also found in some classical Latin texts alongside the primary form cauda, though uncommon.

First declension.

• coda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coda in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• coda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

coda f (plural codas)

1. (music) coda

coda c

1. (music) coda