different between epilogue vs coda

English

Alternative forms

• epilog

Etymology

From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ????????? (epilégein, “say in addition”), from ??? (epí, “in addition”) + ?????? (légein, “to say”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p.?.l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?l??/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??p?l??/

Noun

epilogue (plural epilogues)

1. A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
2. The performer who gives this speech
3. A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
4. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.

Synonyms

• (short speech at the end of a play): endspeech
• (brief script at the end of a literary piece): afterword, endspeech; see also Thesaurus:afterword

Antonyms

• (short speech at the end of a play): prologue
• (brief script at the end of a literary piece): prologue; see also Thesaurus:foreword

Translations

Verb

epilogue (third-person singular simple present epilogues, present participle epiloguing, simple past and past participle epilogued)

1. (transitive) To conclude with an epilogue.

References

• epilogue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• epilogue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• epilogue at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?.d?/
• Rhymes: -??d?
• Homophone: coder (in non-rhotic dialects)

Noun

coda (plural codas)

2. (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

   Synonym: finale

   Coordinate terms: chorus, refrain

3. (phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.

   Synonym: auslaut

   Antonym: onset

   Coordinate terms: onset, nucleus, rime

   Holonym: syllable

4. (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
5. (figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,

     Downstairs, a little later, in the drawing room, the coda of the party was unwinding, and Gerald opening new bottles of champagne as though he made no distinction between the boring drunks who "sat," and the knowing few of the inner circle, gathered round the empty marble fireplace.

   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.

6. Alternative spelling of CODA

Translations

See also

• vowel

Further reading

• Syllable coda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ACOD, Coad, DOAC, Daco-

Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin c?da, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. tail

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian coda. Doublet of queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.da/

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. (music) coda
2. (phonology) a syllable coda

   Coordinate terms: attaque, noyau

Verb

coda

1. third-person singular past historic of coder

Further reading

• “coda” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?d???]

Noun

coda f

1. genitive singular of cuid

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin coda, variant of Latin cauda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko.da/

Noun

coda f (plural code)

1. tail
2. queue; line

   Synonym: fila

3. (music) coda

   Synonym: (diminutive) codetta

   Antonyms: introduzione, (music) ouverture, (music) preludio

4. (rail transport, only singular, uncountable) end (of a train), the last car(s)

   Antonym: testa

Derived terms

• coda di rospo

Related terms

• accodare / accodarsi
• codazzo
• codetta
• codina, codino
• codona, codone
• scodare
• scodinzolare

Anagrams

• cado

Latin

Etymology

Alternative form of cauda. For descendants, see there.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.da/, [?ko?d?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.da/, [?k??d??]

Noun

c?da f (genitive c?dae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) tail

Usage notes

Also found in some classical Latin texts alongside the primary form cauda, though uncommon.

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• coda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coda in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• coda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French coder.

Verb

a coda (third-person singular present codeaz?, past participle codat) 1st conj.

1. to code, to encode

Conjugation

Spanish

Noun

coda f (plural codas)

1. (music) coda
2. (phonology) coda

Swedish

Noun

coda c

1. (music) coda

Declension