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4-letter words (1 found)

CODA,

3-letter words (6 found)

ADO,CAD,COD,DOC,OCA,ODA,

2-letter words (4 found)

AD,DA,DO,OD,

You can make 11 words from coda according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of coda

coda

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

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
  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.
    • 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.
  6. A series of clicks used by sperm whales for communicating with each other.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cua.

Noun

coda f (plural codes)

  1. (music, phonology) coda

Hypernyms

  • (musical passage): passatge

Holonyms

  • (musical passage): moviment
  • (portion of a syllable): rima

Further reading

  • “coda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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/

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōda, monophthongized variant of cauda.

Pronunciation

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

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

Anagrams

  • cado, daco

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkoː.da]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.d̪a]

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.

Descendants

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 conjugation

  1. to code, to encode

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

coda c

  1. (music) coda

Declension


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