Etymology 1
Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above.
Noun
discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)
- Lack of concord, agreement or harmony; disaccord.
1775 March 22, Edmund Burke, “Speech on Moving Resolutions for Conciliation with America”, in [Walker King and French Laurence], editors, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume III, London: […] [T. Gillet] for F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], published 1803, →OCLC, page 31:The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; […]
- Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
- (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
- Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 700, page 173:[…] For a Diſcord it ſelfe is but a Harſhneſſe of Diuers Sounds Meeting.
Translations
lack of agreement
- Azerbaijani: nifaq
- Bulgarian: несъгласие (bg) n (nesǎglasie), разногласие (bg) n (raznoglasie)
- Catalan: discòrdia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不調和／不调和 (zh) (bùtiáohé), 不和 (zh) (bùhé)
- Dutch: onenigheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: malakordo
- Finnish: epäsopu (fi), eripura (fi) (general); soraääni (fi) (individual)
- French: discorde (fr) f, désaccord (fr) m
- Galician: discordia f
- German: Uneinigkeit (de) f, Streit (de) m
- Gothic: 𐍄𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 f (twisstass)
- Greek: διχόνοια (el) f (dichónoia), διάσταση (el) f (diástasi), έριδα (el) f (érida)
- Irish: imreas m
- Italian: discordia (it) f, dissenso (it) m, zizzania (it) f
- Japanese: 不調和 (ja) (ふちょうわ, fuchōwa), 不和 (ja) (ふわ, fuwa)
- Korean: 불협화음 (bulhyeophwa'eum), 부조화(不調和) (ko) (bujohwa)
- Latin: dissensus m
- Malayalam: ഭിന്നത (ml) (bhinnata), വിയോജിപ്പ് (viyōjippŭ)
- Polish: niezgoda (pl) f
- Portuguese: discórdia (pt) f
- Romanian: discordie (ro) f
- Russian: разногла́сие (ru) n (raznoglásije), разла́д (ru) m (razlád), несогла́сие (ru) n (nesoglásije)
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-chòrdadh m, eas-aonta m, eadar-chasaideachd f
- Spanish: discordia (es) f, desencuentro m
- Swedish: missämja (sv) c, oenighet (sv) c, split (sv) n
- Turkish: anlaşmazlık (tr), ihtilaf (tr)
- Walloon: bisbrouye (wa) f
- Welsh: anghydfod (cy) m, anghytundeb (cy) m, anghytgord m
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strife resulting from lack of agreement; dissension
Verb
discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)
- (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 227, page 62:[…] Sometimes the one Iarring and diſcording with the other, and making a Confuſion; […]
Etymology 2
From dis- + cord (“tie, bind”).
Adjective
discord m or n (feminine singular discordă, masculine plural discorzi, feminine and neuter plural discorde)
- discordant
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Noun
discord f (plural discorzi)
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References
- discord in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN