coda

See also: CODA, códa, and côda

English

WOTD – 14 December 2008

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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

Etymology 1

The symbol for a musical coda.

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”), from Latin cauda. Doublet of queue.

Noun

coda (plural codas)

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

   Synonym: finale

   Coordinate terms: chorus, refrain

3. (phonology) The optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants.

   Synonym: auslaut

   Antonyms: anlaut, onset

   Holonyms: rime, syllable

   Coordinate term: inlaut

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

4. (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.
5. (figurative) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     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)[1]

     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.

   • 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:

     Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."

Derived terms

• codaless
• codalike
• d.c. al coda

 

Translations

music

• Catalan: coda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尾聲／尾声 (zh) (wěishēng)

• Finnish: kooda (fi)
• Galician: coda (gl) f
• German: Koda (de) f, Coda (de) f, Ausklang (de) m
• Greek: κόντα (el) f (kónta)
• Hungarian: kóda (hu)
• Japanese: コーダ (kōda)
• Macedonian: ко́да f (kóda)
• Maori: whakakapinga
• Russian: ко́да (ru) f (kóda), фина́л (ru) m (finál)
• Spanish: coda (es) f

linguistics

• Arabic: خَاتِمَة f (ḵātimah)
• Catalan: coda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韻尾／韵尾 (zh) (yùnwěi)

• Danish: baglyd c, efterlyd c, udlyd c
• Esperanto: vosto (eo)
• Finnish: kooda (fi), loppuäänne
• French: coda (fr) f
• Galician: coda (gl) f
• German: Koda (de) f, Auslaut (de) m, Silbenauslaut m, Silbenkoda (de) f
• Hungarian: szótagzárlat, kóda (hu)
• Italian: coda (it) f
• Japanese: 末尾子音 (matsubishiin)
• Macedonian: завр́шеток m (zavŕšetok)
• Polish: wygłos (pl) m
• Portuguese: coda (pt) f
• Russian: ко́да (ru) f (kóda), коне́чный звук m (konéčnyj zvuk), термина́ль f (terminálʹ)
• Spanish: coda (es) f
• Swedish: koda (sv) c, slutljud n

geology

• Finnish: kooda (fi)
• Polish: powrót do normalnego poziomu m

figurative

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

See also

• vowel
• 𝄌

 

Further reading

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

coda (plural codas)

1. Alternative spelling of CODA

Anagrams

• ACOD, Coad, DOAC, Daco-

Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. tail

Corsican

Noun

coda f

1. tail

References

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

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.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔd̪ˠə]

Noun

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

Mutation

Mutated forms of coda

radical	lenition	eclipsis
coda	choda	gcoda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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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

Latin

Etymology

Showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.da/, [ˈkoːd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.da/, [ˈkɔːd̪ä]

Noun

cōda f (genitive cōdae); first declension

1. Alternative form of cauda

Usage notes

• Found in some Classical Latin texts alongside cauda, though uncommon.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōda	cōdae
genitive	cōdae	cōdārum
dative	cōdae	cōdīs
accusative	cōdam	cōdās
ablative	cōdā	cōdīs
vocative	cōda	cōdae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: coadă
  • Megleno-Romanian: coadă
  • Aromanian: coadã, code
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: coa
  • Friulian: code
  • Romansch: cua
  • Venetan: cóa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: cova
  • Old French: coe, cue, keue
    • Bourguignon: coue
    • Champenois: coue
    • Franc-Comtois: quoûe
    • Middle French: queu, cueue
      • French: queue
      • English: queue, cue (partly through Anglo-Norman)
    • Picard: queue
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: coue
    • Walloon: cawe
• Occitano-Romance
  • Old Catalan: coa
    • Catalan: cua, coa ⇒ coet
      • → Spanish: cohete
      • → Galician: cúa
  • Occitan: coa
• Ibero-Romance:
• Aragonese: coda
  • Spanish: cola
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cola
    • Galician: cola
    • Portuguese: cola
• Insular Romance:
  • Sicilian: cuda
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: cauda
  • Italian: coda
    • → English: coda
    • → German: Coda
    • → French: coda
• Sardinian: cò, coa, coda

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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed 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

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Noun

coda c

1. (music) coda

Declension

Declension of coda

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	coda	codas
	definite	codan	codans
plural	indefinite	codor	codors
	definite	codorna	codornas