cor

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cor"

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔː/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: caw (non-rhotic accents only), corps, core (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

Interjection

cor

1. (Cockney Britain) Expression of surprise.
   • Cor blimey!
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

     “I don’t get this,” she said. “How do you mean it’s gone?” “It’s been pinched.” “Things don’t get pinched in country-houses.” “They do if there’s a Wilbert Cream on the premises. He’s a klep-whatever-it-is,” I said, and thrust Jeeves’s letter on her. She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:wow

Etymology 2

From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר‎ (kōr)

Alternative forms

• kor, core

Noun

cor (plural cors)

1. (historical units of measure) Various former units of volume, particularly:
   1. A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
   2. Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
   3. A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.

Synonyms

• homer, omer

Meronyms

• (liquid volume): log (¹⁄₇₂₀ cor); cab, kab (¹⁄₁₈₀ cor); hin (¹⁄₆₀ cor); bath (¹⁄₁₀ cor)
• (dry volume): See homer

Further reading

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

Anagrams

• CRO, OCR, ORC, ROC, orc, roc

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾ/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan cor, from Latin cor, from Proto-Italic *kord, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-.

Noun

cor m (plural cors)

1. heart

Derived terms

• amb l'ai al cor
• dir-ho de tot cor (“to say it with all the heart; to be sincere”)
• veure's amb cor

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Latin chorus (14th century), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Noun

cor m (plural cors)

1. chorus

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French

Etymology

From Old French cor, corn, from Latin cornu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

cor m (plural cors)

1. horn (musical instrument)
2. corn (of the foot)

Derived terms

• à cor et à cri
• cor anglais
• cor de chasse
• cor des Alpes

Related terms

• cornu

Further reading

• “cor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• roc

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese coor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin color, colōrem.

Alternative forms

• color

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoɾ], [ˈkoːɾ]

Noun

cor f (plural cores)

1. color, hue

Derived terms

• de cor

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾ]

Noun

cor m (plural cores)

1. (archaic) heart

   Synonym: corazón

Related terms

• acorar
• corazón

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾ]

Noun

cor m (plural cores)

1. Alternative form of calor

References

• “cor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “coor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “coor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔɾˠ/

Noun

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural cora or coranna)

1. twist, turn, turning movement
2. (fishing) cast; haul from cast
3. (music) lively turn; lively air
4. (dance) reel

Declension

Declension of cor

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cor cora Vocative a choir a chora Genitive coir cor Dative cor cora

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cor na cora Genitive an choir na gcor Dative leis an gcor don chor leis na cora

• Alternative plural: coranna

Derived terms

• ar aon chor (“anyway, at any rate”)
• ar chor ar bith, in aon chor (“at all”)
• ar chor éigin (“somehow”)
• ar gach aon chor (“at every turn; in every respect”)
• as cor (“out of order”)
• cor bealaigh m (“detour”)
• cor beirte m (“two-hand reel”)
• cor cainte m (“turn of phrase”)
• cor ceathrair m (“four-hand reel”)
• cor coraíochta m, cor iomrascála m (“wrestling turn”)
• cor éisc m (“haul of fish”)
• cor i mbia m (“contamination in food”)
• cor lín m (“cast of net”)
• cor na péiste m (“cable-stitch”)
• cor na sióg m (“fairy reel”)
• cor ochtair m (“eight-hand reel”)
• den chor seo (“at this turn of events, this time”)
• líon coir m (“casting-net”)

 

Noun

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural coir)

1. agreement, contract; guarantee, pledge

Declension

Declension of cor

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cor coir Vocative a choir a chora Genitive coir cor Dative cor coir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cor na coir Genitive an choir na gcor Dative leis an gcor don chor leis na coir

Noun

cor m (genitive singular coir)

1. verbal noun of coir
2. tiredness, exhaustion

Declension

Declension of cor

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cor Vocative a choir Genitive coir Dative cor

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an cor Genitive an choir Dative leis an gcor don chor

Verb

cor (present analytic corann, future analytic corfaidh, verbal noun coradh, past participle cortha)

1. turn

Conjugation

First Conjugation (A)

		singular			plural			relative	autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	coraim	corann tú; corair†	corann sé, sí	coraimid	corann sibh	corann siad; coraid†	a chorann; a choras / a gcorann*; a gcoras*	cortar
	past	chor mé; choras	chor tú; chorais	chor sé, sí	choramar; chor muid	chor sibh; chorabhair	chor siad; choradar	a chor / ar chor*	coradh
	past habitual	chorainn / gcorainn‡‡	chortá / gcortᇇ	choradh sé, sí / gcoradh sé, s퇇	choraimis; choradh muid / gcoraimis‡‡; gcoradh muid‡‡	choradh sibh / gcoradh sibh‡‡	choraidís; choradh siad / gcoraidís‡‡; gcoradh siad‡‡	a choradh / a gcoradh*	chortaí / gcorta퇇
	future	corfaidh mé; corfad	corfaidh tú; corfair†	corfaidh sé, sí	corfaimid; corfaidh muid	corfaidh sibh	corfaidh siad; corfaid†	a chorfaidh; a chorfas / a gcorfaidh*; a gcorfas*	corfar
conditional		chorfainn / gcorfainn‡‡	chorfá / gcorfᇇ	chorfadh sé, sí / gcorfadh sé, s퇇	chorfaimis; chorfadh muid / gcorfaimis‡‡; gcorfadh muid‡‡	chorfadh sibh / gcorfadh sibh‡‡	chorfaidís; chorfadh siad / gcorfaidís‡‡; gcorfadh siad‡‡	a chorfadh / a gcorfadh*	chorfaí / gcorfa퇇
subjunctive	present	go gcora mé; go gcorad†	go gcora tú; go gcorair†	go gcora sé, sí	go gcoraimid; go gcora muid	go gcora sibh	go gcora siad; go gcoraid†	—	go gcortar
	past	dá gcorainn	dá gcortá	dá gcoradh sé, sí	dá gcoraimis; dá gcoradh muid	dá gcoradh sibh	dá gcoraidís; dá gcoradh siad	—	dá gcortaí
imperative		coraim	cor	coradh sé, sí	coraimis	coraigí; coraidh†	coraidís	—	cortar
verbal noun		coradh
past participle		cortha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Synonyms

• cas

Derived terms

• feoil chortha f (“tainted meat”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cor	chor	gcor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "cor" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Istriot

Alternative forms

• core, cour

Etymology

From Latin cor. Cognate with Catalan cor.

Noun

cor m

1. heart

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Italian

Noun

cor m

1. Apocopic form of cuore
   • c. 1314, Dante, Inferno 1.13–15:

     Ma poi ch’i’ fui al piè d’un colle giunto, / là dove terminava quella valle / che m’avea di paura il cor compunto, …

     But then, when I had reached the foot of a hill, / there where that valley ended / which had pierced my heart with fear, …

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kord, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-. Cognate with Ancient Greek καρδίᾱ (kardíā), Proto-Germanic *hertô, Sanskrit हृदय (hṛdaya), Hittite 𒆠𒅕 (kir), Proto-Slavic *sьrdьce (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor/, [kɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor/, [kɔr]

Noun

cor n (genitive cordis); third declension

1. (anatomy) heart
2. (figuratively) soul, mind

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cor	corda
Genitive	cordis	cordium cordum
Dative	cordī	cordibus
Accusative	cor	corda
Ablative	corde	cordibus
Vocative	cor	corda

Derived terms

• concordia
• concorditās
• concordō
• concors
• corculum
• cordātus
• cordolium
• discordia
• discorditās
• discordō
• discors
• excors
• misericordia
• misericors
• praecordia
• prāvicordius
• pravicors
• recordor
• socordia
• socors
• vēcordia
• vēcors

 

Descendants

• Corsican: core
• Dalmatian: cur
• Emilian: côr
• Franco-Provençal: côr
• Friulian: cûr
• Istriot: cor, core, cour
• Italian: cuore
• Ligurian: cheu
• Lombard: cœr
• Neapolitan: core
• Old French: cuer, coer, quer
  • Middle French: coeur, cueur, cœur
    • French: cœur
      • Haitian Creole: kè, kœ
      • → Polish: kier
  • Bourguignon: côr
  • Norman: tchoeu
  • Walloon: cour
• Old Occitan: cor
  • Catalan: cor
  • Occitan: còr
• Old Portuguese: cor
  • Galician: cor (archaic, literary)
  • Portuguese: cor
• Old Spanish: cuer, cor
• Piedmontese: cheur, cör
• → Romanian: cord
• Romansch: cor

• Sardinian: coru, còro
• Sicilian: cori
• Tarantino: côre
• Venetian: cor
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *coratiō (Iberian) (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *coraticum
  • Old French: corage (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: coratge (all borrowings also possibly from Old French)
    • Catalan: coratge
    • Occitan: coratge
    • → Galician: coraxe
    • → Italian: coraggio
    • → Portuguese: coragem
    • → Sicilian: curaggiu
      • → Maltese: kuraġġ
    • → Spanish: coraje
    • → Venetian: coragio
      • → Greek: κουράγιο (kourágio)

References

• cor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am gradually convinced that..: addūcor, ut credam
    
  • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
    

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin cornu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun

cor m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cor)

1. horn (instrument used to produce sound)

Synonyms

• buisine
• corne

Descendants

• French: cor

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *koros (“casting, a throw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kor/

Noun

cor m (genitive cuir, no plural)

1. verbal noun of fo·ceird

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cor	—	—
Vocative	cuir	—	—
Accusative	corN	—	—
Genitive	cuirL	—	—
Dative	corL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cor	chor	cor pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cor.

Noun

cor m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cor)

1. heart (organ which pumps blood)
2. heart (metaphorically, human emotion)
   • circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Tant ai mo cor ple de joya:

     Tant ai mo cor ple de joya

     My heart is so full of joy

Related terms

• coratge

Descendants

• Catalan: cor
• Occitan: còr

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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese coor, from Latin color, colōrem, from Old Latin colos (“covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal”).

Alternative forms

• côr (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʁ/, [ˈkoχ]
• Hyphenation: cor
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

cor f (plural cores)

1. colour (Commonwealth English), color (American English)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cor.

Related terms

• corar
• colorar
• colorir

Etymology 2

From Latin cor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʁ/, [ˈkɔχ]
• Hyphenation: cor
• Rhymes: -ɔɾ

Noun

cor m (plural cores)

1. heart

Related terms

• de cor
• coração

References

• “cor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cor” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.

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Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”), or borrowed from Latin chorus, Italian coro, German Chor.

Noun

cor n (plural coruri)

1. choir, chorus (group of singers)

Related terms

• coral
• corist

Etymology 2

From Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Noun

cor n (plural coruri)

1. a gathering, circle, society
2. a bunch of hay arranged in squares or circles for making haybales

Declension

Declension of cor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cor	corul	(niște) coruri	corurile
genitive/dative	(unui) cor	corului	(unor) coruri	corurilor
vocative	corule		corurilor

See also

• horă

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin cor.

Noun

cor m (plural cors)

1. (anatomy) heart

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting, placing; setting up, etc.; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw (in wrestling); twist, coil; twist, detour, circuit in road, etc.; tune, melody; contract; surety, guarantor; act of overthrowing, defeating; defeat, reverse; state, condition, plight; act of tiring; tiredness, fatigue”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“sets, puts, places; throws, casts; casts down, overthrows; puts forth, emits, sends out; launches; utters, makes; raises (a shout, cry); performs, executes, wages”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔɾ/

Noun

cor m (genitive singular coir or cuir)

1. condition, state

   Dè do chor? ― How are you?

   (literally: "what's your condition?")

2. condition, eventuality, circumstance

   air chor sam bith ― on any condition, on any account

   air chor 's gu ― on condition that

   (cf also derived terms)

3. method, manner
4. custom
5. surety
6. term or condition of a treaty
7. progress

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cor	chor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

• air chor 's gu (“so that/with the result that”)
• air a h-uile cor (“by all means; at all costs”)
• cor-inntinn (“state of mind”)

References

• “cor” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, →ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.

Noun

cor m (plural cori)

1. heart

Related terms

• corexin

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *korr, from Proto-Celtic *korros (“stunted, dwarfish”) (compare Old Cornish cor, Middle Breton corr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔr/

Noun

cor m (plural corrod)

1. dwarf, pygmy, little urchin
2. spider; shrew

Synonyms

• (dwarf): corrach
• (spider): cop, copyn, corryn

Derived terms

• corgi
• corhwyad

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cor	gor	nghor	chor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish jor.

Noun

cor ?

1. top (uppermost part)