χορδή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowel”). Cognates include Sanskrit हिर (hira), Latin hernia, and Old English ġearn (English yarn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰor.dɛ̌ː/ → /xorˈði/ → /xorˈði/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰor.dɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰorˈde̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xorˈði/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xorˈði/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xorˈði/

Noun

χορδή • (khordḗ) f (genitive χορδῆς); first declension

1. (in the plural) guts, intestines
2. string made of gut
3. string, chord
4. sausage

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χορδή; τῆς χορδῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χορδή hē khordḗ	τὼ χορδᾱ́ tṑ khordā́	αἱ χορδαί hai khordaí
Genitive	τῆς χορδῆς tês khordês	τοῖν χορδαῖν toîn khordaîn	τῶν χορδῶν tôn khordôn
Dative	τῇ χορδῇ têi khordêi	τοῖν χορδαῖν toîn khordaîn	ταῖς χορδαῖς taîs khordaîs
Accusative	τὴν χορδήν tḕn khordḗn	τὼ χορδᾱ́ tṑ khordā́	τᾱ̀ς χορδᾱ́ς tā̀s khordā́s
Vocative	χορδή khordḗ	χορδᾱ́ khordā́	χορδαί khordaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: chord, cord
• Greek: χορδή f (chordí)
• Latin: chorda
• Russian: хо́рда f (xórda)

Further reading

• “χορδή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορδή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χορδή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χορδή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χορδή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chord idem, page 131.
  • gut idem, page 379.
  • sausage idem, page 735.
  • string idem, page 826.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ).

Noun

χορδή • (chordí) f (plural χορδές)

1. bow string
2. (geometry) chord (of a circle)
3. (music) string (of violin, piano, etc)
4. (anatomy) vocal cord, vocal fold
5. (physics) string

   θεωρία χορδών (string theory)

6. any long, very thin structure

Declension

Declension of χορδή

	singular	plural
nominative	χορδή •	χορδές •
genitive	χορδής •	χορδών •
accusative	χορδή •	χορδές •
vocative	χορδή •	χορδές •

See also

• συγχορδία f (synchordía, “musical chord”)

Further reading

• Θεωρία χορδών on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el