coda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants.

   The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.

Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”), from Latin cauda. Doublet of queue and cola.

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