caudex

== English == === Etymology === From Latin caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”); compare codex. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôʹdĕks, IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdɛks/, === Noun === caudex (plural caudices or caudexes) (botany) An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== caudicle codex ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === cōdex === Etymology === Uncertain. Most likely to be connected to cūdō (“to beat, strike”), both deriving from the same dental extension of Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂-, *keh₂w- (“to beat, hew, chop”), and so originally meant “that which has been cleaved off”. See also cauda (“tail”). Another possibility is a relation to caulis (“stalk”), if this is an l-stem derivative of the same ultimate root, perhaps *ḱawh₁- (“to swell; hollow”) (whence cavus) if both words originally meant “hollow stem”. An older idea connected it to Latin caupulus (“a kind of small boat”), based on the observation that similar words meaning “boat” and “tree” are often related in Indo-European languages, as many Indo-European peoples used hollowed out trees as boats and skiffs. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkau̯.dɛks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaːu̯.deks] === Noun === caudex m (genitive caudicis); third declension tree trunk, stump bollard; post book, writing; notebook, account book (derogatory) blockhead, idiot Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (bollard, blockhead, idiot): gurdus ==== Derived terms ==== caudica (“a raft”) caudicālis caudicārius caudiceus ==== Descendants ==== See also cōdex. → Catalan: càudex → Portuguese: cáudice === References === === Further reading === “caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "caudex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “caudex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “caudex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers