codas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coda, codae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
tail (animal); extreme part/tail of anything; penis (Horace);
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...uendere, non legere. Cum Saxetani ponatur coda lacerti et, bene si cenas, conchis inuncta tibi, sumen, aprum, leporem..."- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...quotidie peius! Haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli. Sed quare nos habemus aedilem trium cauniarum, qui sibi..."