cordel
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Etymology
From Spanish cordel (“surveying rope, 50 varas”), from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to cord + -el.
Noun
cordel (plural cordels or cordeles)
- (historical) Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.
Coordinate terms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cor‧del
Noun
cordel m (plural cordéis)
- strand (short string)
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope, cord, string”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to corda + -el.
Pronunciation
Noun
cordel m (plural cordeles)
- string (thin thread)
- Synonym: mecate
- twine (thin cord or rope)
- Synonym: cuerda
- (historical) chain (surverying or measuring rope, typically of 50 or 100 varas)
- (historical) cordel, Spanish chain (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.9 m in 19th-century Spain)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- a cordel
- a hurta cordel
- apretar los cordeles a alguien
- cordel de látigo
- cordel de merinas
- dar cordel
- literatura de cordel
- mozo de cordel
- pliegos de cordel
Related terms
Further reading
- “cordel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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