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coadă
tail /ˈko̯adə/
noun#2035 most common
Also: queue, line (of people), handle (of a tool), ponytail
Example sentences
Câinele are o coadă lungă.
The dog has a long tail.
Pisica își mișcă coada.
The cat moves its tail.
Facem coadă la magazin.
We are standing in line at the store.
Am stat la coadă două ore pentru bilete.
I stood in line for two hours for tickets.
Coada de topor s-a rupt în timp ce tăiam lemne.
The axe handle broke while I was chopping wood.
Politicianul a fost doar o coadă de topor pentru interesele marilor companii.
The politician was just a pawn for the interests of big companies.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | coadă | cozi |
| Genitive | cozi | cozilor |
| Accusative | coadă | cozi |
| Vocative | coado | cozilor |
Word family
codițălittle tail; pigtail
codașperson who finishes last, straggler
a face coadăto queue up, to stand in line
coadă de toporaxe handle; figuratively, a stooge acting on someone else's behalf
Etymology
Coadă comes from the Latin coda, a popular variant of the classical cauda, meaning tail. The word passed into Romanian along with the rest of the core vocabulary that survived from spoken Latin in the region. The extended senses, a line of waiting people or the handle of a tool, developed later by simple visual analogy with an animal's tail trailing behind.
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