The story
- Latin · derived fromcauda“tail”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromcaudātus
- English todaycaudate
Borrowed from Medieval Latin caudātus, from Classical Latin cauda (“tail”) + -ātus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Words from the same roots
Latincauda all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.