chorda

See also: Chorda

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, tripe”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

chorda f (genitive chordae); first declension

1. tripe, intestine (as food)
2. catgut, string of a musical instrument
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.108:

     reddidit icta suōs pollice chorda sonōs

     [Each] string, struck by his thumb, rendered its notes.

3. rope, cord for binding a slave

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	chorda	chordae
genitive	chordae	chordārum
dative	chordae	chordīs
accusative	chordam	chordās
ablative	chordā	chordīs
vocative	chorda	chordae

Derived terms

• chordacista
• septemchordis
• trichordis

Related terms

• acrochordon
• chordapsus
• decachordum
• decachordus
• hexachordos
• monochordos
• octachordos, octochordos
• pentachordus
• tetrachordos

 

Descendants

Descendants

• →? Albanian: kordhë
• → Byzantine Greek: κόρδα (kórda)
  • Greek: κόρδα (kórda)
• → Dutch: koorde
• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: coardã
  • Romanian: coardă
• ⇒ English: chorda tympani
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Istriot: curda
  • → Italian: corda
  • → Sicilian: corda
• → Old French: corde (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Occitan: corda
  • → Catalan: corda
  • → Occitan: còrda
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: cuarde
  • → Romansch: corda
• → Sardinian: codra, corda, colda
• → Venetan: corda
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: cuerda
  • Asturian: cuerda
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: corda
    • Fala: corda
    • Galician: corda
    • Portuguese: corda
  • Spanish: cuerda

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.