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Used by Plautus to describe the material a box or chest is made of, which suggests derivation from caudex (“tree trunk, block of wood”), but the form suggests derivation from cauda (“tail”) + -eus (“-en, -y”). Compare also cōdēta, used to refer to a place where some type of plant grew. All of these words in caud-/cōd- are probably derived from a common root which can be reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d- (“cleaved, separate”), from *keh₂w-.
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | caudeus | caudea | caudeum | caudeī | caudeae | caudea | |
| Genitive | caudeī | caudeae | caudeī | caudeōrum | caudeārum | caudeōrum | |
| Dative | caudeō | caudeō | caudeīs | ||||
| Accusative | caudeum | caudeam | caudeum | caudeōs | caudeās | caudea | |
| Ablative | caudeō | caudeā | caudeō | caudeīs | |||
| Vocative | caudee | caudea | caudeum | caudeī | caudeae | caudea | |