coda

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

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

The symbol for a musical coda.

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”).

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.

• d.c. al coda

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

coda (plural codas)

1. Alternative spelling of CODA

• ACOD, Coad, DOAC, Daco-

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

coda f (plural codas)

1. tail

coda f

1. tail

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

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

   Coordinate terms: attaque, noyau

coda

1. third-person singular past historic of coder

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔd̪ˠə]

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

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

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

• coda di rospo

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

• cado, daco

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

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

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

1. tail

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

First-declension noun.

• “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

From French coder.

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

1. to code, to encode

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

coda f (plural codas)

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

coda f

1. feminine singular of codo

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

coda c

1. (music) coda