Caudex

== Latin == === Etymology === From caudex (“tree trunk”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkau̯.dɛks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaːu̯.deks] === Proper noun === Caudex m sg (genitive Caudicis); third declension A Roman cognomen, famously held by: Appius Claudius Caudex, a Roman consul ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Caudex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.