chorda

See also: Chorda

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰor.da/, [ˈkʰɔrd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.da/, [ˈkɔrd̪ä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

chorda f (genitive chordae); first declension

1. cord, string
2. tripe, intestine (as food)
3. catgut

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chorda	chordae
Genitive	chordae	chordārum
Dative	chordae	chordīs
Accusative	chordam	chordās
Ablative	chordā	chordīs
Vocative	chorda	chordae

Descendants

• Albanian: kordhë
• Aragonese: cuerda
• Aromanian: coardã
• Asturian: cuerda
• Catalan: corda
• Dutch: koord, koorde
• English: chord, cord
• French: corde
• Friulian: cuarde
• Galician: corda
• Istriot: curda

• Italian: corda
• Occitan: còrda
• Portuguese: corda
• Romanian: coardă
• Romansch: corda
• Sardinian: codra, corda, colda
• Sicilian: corda
• Spanish: cuerda
• Venetian: corda
• Walloon: coide
• Translingual: Chordata

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.