The story
- Medieval Latin · learned borrowing fromo caudāta
- English todayo caudata
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin o caudāta (literally “tailed o”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
o caudata
Today it means: A form of the letter o modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ǫ⟩, used in Old Norse. Full definition →
Medieval Latin o caudāta