corde

See also: cordé

French

Alternative forms

• chorde (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French corde, from Old French corde, borrowed from Latin chorda (“gut”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁd/

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Noun

corde f (plural cordes)

1. rope (general)
2. (geometry) chord
3. (music) chord (of a string instrument)
4. chord (vocal chord)
5. line (washing line, for hanging clothes to dry)

Derived terms

• à fleur de corde
• avoir plus d’une corde à son arc
• cordage
• corde à linge
• corde à sauter
• corde raide
• corde vocale
• cordeau
• cordelet
• cordelette
• corder
• cordon
• de sac et de corde
• échelle de corde
• instrument à cordes
• parler de corde dans la maison d’un pendu
• pleuvoir des cordes
• saut à la corde
• sauter à la corde
• tenir la corde
• tirer sur la corde
• tomber des cordes
• toucher la corde sensible
• usé jusqu’à la corde

 

Verb

corde

1. inflection of corder:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “corde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• coder
• crédo
• décor

Interlingua

Noun

corde (plural cordes)

1. (anatomy) heart
2. (figuratively) heart
3. hearts (a suit of cards, ♥)

Italian

Noun

corde f pl

1. plural of corda

Anagrams

• cedro, cedrò, credo, crode

Latin

Noun

corde

1. ablative singular of cor

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cord, coord

Etymology

From Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrd(ə)/, /ˈkɔːrd(ə)/

Noun

corde (plural cordes)

1. A long, thick length of fibre (often intertwined):
2. One of the strings of a string instrument.
3. A sinew or the muscular material one is made out of.
4. A division of inherited property or goods.
5. (rare) A nerve; a cable of bundled neurons.
6. (rare) A method to torment captives using a cord.
7. (rare) A whip made of multiple cords.

Descendants

• English: cord; chord (influenced by Latin spelling)
• Scots: cord

References

• “cō̆rde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French corde.

Noun

corde f (plural cordes)

1. rope

Descendants

• French: corde

Norman

Etymology

From Old French corde, borrowed from Latin chorda (“gut”).

Noun

corde f (plural cordes)

1. (Jersey) string, rope, line

Derived terms

• corde à lînge (“clothesline”)
• cordgi (“ropemaker”)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ).

Noun

corde oblique singular, f (oblique plural cordes, nominative singular corde, nominative plural cordes)

1. rope

Descendants

• Middle French: corde
  • French: corde
• Norman: corde (Jersey)
• Walloon: coide
• → Middle Dutch: corde, coorde
  • Dutch: koord
• → Middle English: corde, cord, coord
  • English: cord; chord (influenced by Latin spelling)
  • Scots: cord

Tarantino

Etymology

Compare Italian corda.

Noun

corde

1. rope