Well, you mostly repeated the same definitions I mentioned upthread, but you didn't explain how you got from those words to the translations, which was really what I was more interested in.
farmerjohn wrote: "caudic.āri.ūrus - from caudex, "trunk of a tree". A wouldn't trust this interpretation too much, but there is another place where this translation looks plausible'
Actually, this one has a rational origin. Tree trunks were used to make boats, originally canoes. Similarly derived words later were applied to merchant ships, barges, and the bargemen who worked on them.
farmerjohn wrote: "caudic.āri.ūrus - from caudex, "trunk of a tree". A wouldn't trust this interpretation too much, but there is another place where this translation looks plausible'
Actually, this one has a rational origin. Tree trunks were used to make boats, originally canoes. Similarly derived words later were applied to merchant ships, barges, and the bargemen who worked on them.