Coda in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Coda

You can make 11 words from 'coda' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'coda'
• 3 letters words from 'coda'
• 2 letters words from 'coda'

4 letters words from 'coda'

CODA 7

3 letters words from 'coda'

ADO 4	CAD 6
COD 6	DOC 6
OCA 5	ODA 4

2 letters words from 'coda'

AD 3	DA 3
DO 3	OD 3

Definitions and meaning of coda

coda

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.də/
• Rhymes: -əʊdə
• Homophone: coder (in non-rhotic dialects)

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

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, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,

     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.

5. Alternative spelling of CODA

Translations

See also

• vowel

Further reading

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ACOD, Coad, 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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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda. Doublet of queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.da/

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

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

   Antonyms: attaque, noyau

Verb

coda

1. third-person singular past historic of coder

Further reading

• “coda” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔd̪ˠə]

Noun

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

Mutation

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin coda, variant of Latin cauda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoda]

Noun

coda f (plural code)

1. tail
2. queue; line

   Synonym: fila

3. (music) coda

   Synonym: codetta (diminutive)

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

4. (rail transport, only singular, uncountable) end (of a train), the last car(s)

   Antonym: testa

Derived terms

• coda di rospo

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• cado

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Latin

Etymology

Alternative form of cauda. For descendants, see there.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.da/, [ˈkoː.d̪a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.da/, [ˈkɔː.d̪a]

Noun

cōda f (genitive cōdae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) tail

Usage notes

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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, 1883–1887)
• coda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Spanish

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

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

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Swedish

Noun

coda c

1. (music) coda

Declension

Source: wiktionary.org

• a passage at the end of a musical composition.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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