coda

coda

See also: CODA and côda

English

WOTD – 14 December 2008

Pronunciation

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

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

Etymology 1

The symbol for a musical coda.

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”).

Noun

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

   Holonym: syllable

   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, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     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.

Derived terms

• d.c. al coda

Translations

music

Catalan: coda (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 尾聲／尾声 (zh) (wěishēng) Finnish: kooda (fi) German: Koda (de) f, Coda (de) f, Ausklang (de) m Greek: κόντα (el) f (kónta) Hungarian: kóda Japanese: コーダ (kōda) Maori: whakakapinga Russian: ко́да (ru) f (kóda), фина́л (ru) m (finál) Spanish: coda (es) f

linguistics

Arabic: خَاتِمَة‎ f (ḵātimah) Catalan: coda (ca) f Finnish: kooda (fi) French: coda (fr) f German: Koda (de) f, Silbenkoda (de) f, Silbenauslaut m Hungarian: szótagzárlat, kóda Italian: coda (it) f Japanese: 末尾子音 (matsubishiin) Portuguese: coda (pt) f Russian: ко́да (ru) f (kóda) Spanish: coda (es) f Swedish: koda (sv) c

geology

figuratively

Finnish: loppu (fi) German: Schluss (de) m, Endpunkt (de) m, Abschluss (de) m

See also

• vowel

 

Further reading

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

coda (plural codas)

1. Alternative spelling of CODA

Anagrams

• ACOD, Coad, DOAC, Daco-

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. tail

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Corsican

Noun

coda f

1. tail

References

• “coda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda. Doublet of queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.da/

• Audio

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Noun

coda f (plural codas)

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

   Coordinate terms: attaque, noyau

Verb

coda

1. third-person singular past historic of coder

Further reading

• “coda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔd̪ˠə]

Noun

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coda	choda	gcoda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.da/
• Rhymes: -oda
• Hyphenation: có‧da

Noun

coda f (plural code)

1. tail
2. queue; line

   Synonym: fila

3. (music) coda

   Synonym: (diminutive) codetta

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

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

Derived terms

• coda di rospo

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• cado, daco

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Latin

Etymology

Alternative form of cauda, showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.da/, [ˈkoːd̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.da/, [ˈkɔːd̪ä]
• (Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈkoda/

Noun

cōda f (genitive cōdae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. tail

Usage notes

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōda	cōdae
Genitive	cōdae	cōdārum
Dative	cōdae	cōdīs
Accusative	cōdam	cōdās
Ablative	cōdā	cōdīs
Vocative	cōda	cōdae

Descendants

• Aragonese: coda
• Aromanian: coadã, code
• Dalmatian: cauda
• Franco-Provençal: cua
• Friulian: code
• Italian: coda
  • → English: coda
  • → German: Coda
  • → French: coda
• Megleno-Romanian: coadă
• Occitan: coa
• Old Catalan: coa
  • Catalan: cua, coa ⇒ coet
    • → Spanish: cohete
    • → Galician: cúa
• Old French: coe, cue, keue
  • French: queue (see there for further descendants)
• Old Portuguese: cola
  • Galician: cola
  • Portuguese: cola
• Piedmontese: coa
• Romanian: coadă
• Romansch: cua
• Sardinian: cò, coa, coda
• Sicilian: cuda
• Spanish: cola
• Venetian: cóa

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• coda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Romanian

Etymology

From French coder.

Verb

a coda (third-person singular present codează, past participle codat) 1st conj.

1. to code, to encode

Conjugation

    conjugation of coda (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a coda
gerund			codând
past participle			codat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	codez	codezi	codează	codăm	codați	codează
	imperfect	codam	codai	coda	codam	codați	codau
	simple perfect	codai	codași	codă	codarăm	codarăți	codară
	pluperfect	codasem	codaseși	codase	codaserăm	codaserăți	codaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să codez	să codezi	să codeze	să codăm	să codați	să codeze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		codează			codați
	negative		nu coda			nu codați

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoda/ [ˈko.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: co‧da

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

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

Adjective

coda f

1. feminine singular of codo

Further reading

• “coda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

coda c

1. (music) coda

Declension

Declension of coda
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	coda	codan	codor	codorna
Genitive	codas	codans	codors	codornas