chorda
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See also: Chorda
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, tripe”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʰor.da/, [ˈkʰɔrd̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.da/, [ˈkɔrd̪ä]
Noun
chorda f (genitive chordae); first declension
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- chordacista
- septemchordis
- trichordis
Related terms
- acrochordon
- chordapsus
- decachordum
- decachordus
- hexachordos
- monochordos
- octachordos, octochordos
- pentachordus
- tetrachordos
Descendants
Descendants
- →? Albanian: kordhë
- → Byzantine Greek: κόρδα (kórda)
- Greek: κόρδα (kórda)
- → Dutch: koorde
- Eastern Romance
- ⇒ English: chorda tympani
- Italo-Dalmatian
- → Old French: corde (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Occitan: corda
- → Catalan: corda
- → Occitan: còrda
- Rhaeto-Romance
- → Sardinian: codra, corda, colda
- → Venetian: corda
- West Iberian
References
- “chorda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “chorda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- chorda 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)
- chorda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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