The story
- Medieval Latin · learned borrowing fromē caudāta
- English todaye caudata
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ē caudāta (literally “tailed e”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
e caudata
Today it means: Used in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period. Full definition →
Medieval Latin ē caudāta