codra

Latin

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek κόδρα (kódra), which would explain the co-.

Noun

codra f (genitive codrae); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

  1. Alternative form of quadra, exact meaning unclear.
    • [9th c. C.E., Martianus Hiberniensis, Laon. BM, Ms. 444, page 122r:
      Κοδρα — Codra, quadra][1][2]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
  2. portion (of bread) ?
    • [4th c. C.E., Dositheus Magister, Hermeneumata Monacensia:
      nomos[n 1] — codra[3]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative codra codrae
Genitive codrae codrārum
Dative codrae codrīs
Accusative codram codrās
Ablative codrā codrīs
Vocative codra codrae

Notes
  1. Standing for its literal derivation from νέμω (némō, “to distribute”).

References
  1. Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus, Gotthold E. Gundermann (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Glossae Latinograecae et Graecolatinae. Accedunt minora utriusque linguae glossaria‎, volume II, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 351, line 35
  2. codra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  3. Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus (1892) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana. Accedunt hermeneumata medicobotanica vetustiora‎, volume III, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 183, line 46

Further reading
  • Densusianu, Ovid (1899) “Étymologies romanes”, in Romania (in French), volume 28, number 109, →JSTOR, page 63
  • Çabej, Eqrem (1964) “Studime rreth etimologjisë së gjuhës shqipe XII”, in Studime filologjike‎ (in Albanian), number 1, page 69
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