corde
French
noun
Definitions
- rope (general)
- (geometry) chord
- (music) chord (of a string instrument)
- chord (vocal chord)
- line (washing line, for hanging clothes to dry)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French corde inherited from Old French corde borrowed from Latin chorda (cord, gut, string, rope, chord) derived from Ancient Greek χορδή (cord, string of gut, guts, string, tendon, rope, entrails, tripe, intestines, string of a musical instrument).
Origin
Ancient Greek
χορδή
Gloss
cord, string of gut, guts, string, tendon, rope, entrails, tripe, intestines, string of a musical instrument
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
臓
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cord English
- cordage English
- decachord English
- chorda Latin
- clavichordium Latin
- Kordon German
- corda Italian
- chordofoon Dutch, Flemish
- koorde Dutch, Flemish
- (chaudepisse) cordée French
- cordage French
- corder French
- corderie French
- cordon French
- cordée French
- hypercorde French
- polycorde French
- supercorde French
- кордон Russian
- cordado Spanish, Castilian
- cordón Spanish, Castilian
- cuerdas Spanish, Castilian
- οὐρά Ancient Greek
- φωνή Ancient Greek
- χορδά Ancient Greek
- χορδή Ancient Greek
- *ǵʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- corda Portuguese
- cordão Portuguese
- kordon Polish
- corde Middle English
- korde Danish
- corde Old French
- cordel Old French
- coardă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cordon Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- χορδή Greek (modern)
- corde Middle Dutch
- corde Norman
- cót Vietnamese
- хорда Bulgarian
- corde Middle French
- coardã Aromanian
- cuerda Asturian
- cuarde Friulian
- corda Old Occitan
- kordenn Breton
- lakord Mauritian Creole
- coide Walloon
- côde Bourguignon
- curda Istriot
- lakord Seychellois Creole