corde
Middle English
/ˈkɔrd(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A long, thick length of fibre (often intertwined):
- One of the strings of a string instrument.
- A sinew or the muscular material one is made out of.
- A division of inherited property or goods.
- (rare) A nerve; a cable of bundled neurons.
- (rare) A method to torment captives using a cord.
- (rare) A whip made of multiple cords.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French corde derived from Latin chorda (cord, gut, string, rope, chord) derived from Ancient Greek χορδά (the string of a lyre, string of gut).
Origin
Ancient Greek
χορδά
Gloss
the string of a lyre, string of gut
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bedcord English
- cord English
- cord set English
- cordectomy English
- corded English
- cordgrass English
- cording English
- cordite English
- cordless English
- cordlike English
- cordmaker English
- cordmaking English
- cordocentesis English
- cordotomy English
- cords English
- cordset English
- corduroy English
- cordwood English
- cordy English
- drawcord English
- hemicord English
- needlecord English
- neurocord English
- paracord English
- pullcord English
- rheocord English
- ripcord English
- tailcord English
- uncord English
- ventriculocordectomy English
- whipcord English
- chorda Latin
- clavichordium Latin
- corda Italian
- koorde Dutch, Flemish
- (chaudepisse) cordée French
- cuerdas Spanish, Castilian
- οὐρά Ancient Greek
- χορδά Ancient Greek
- χορδή Ancient Greek
- *ǵʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- corda Portuguese
- corda Irish
- korde Danish
- corde Old French
- cordel Old French
- coardă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kord Cebuano
- cyrt Welsh
- corde Middle Dutch
- còrd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- corde Norman
- corde Middle French
- coardã Aromanian
- cuerda Asturian
- cuarde Friulian
- corda Old Occitan
- kod Tok Pisin
- coide Walloon
- côde Bourguignon
- curda Istriot