cordo

See also: cordó

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɔr.du]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔr.do]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔɾ.ðo]

Verb

cordo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cordar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cordo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from Latin cordatus, from Latin cor, cordis. Cognate with Spanish cuerdo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾðʊ]

Adjective

cordo (feminine corda, masculine plural cordos, feminine plural cordas)

1. sane; prudent; judicious

   Synonym: acordado

   Antonyms: louco, sandeu, tolo

   Home cordo ao leme (proverb, 18th century) ― Prudent man at the helm

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 525:

     Et uós, que auedes tã bõo syso, que entẽdedes o mal et o destroymento et a perda et a cofondiçõ que y a todos acaesçeu, deujades de falar cõ os outros que son [en] esta oste cordos et entẽdidos, en maneyra que dessemos fin a esta guerra et ouuessemos paz, que ja tenpo era; ca tãto ha ja durado o mal que eu ben creo que nũca esta perda será cobrada ata a fin do mũdo.

     And you, who have such a good judgement, who understand the damage and destruction and loss and confusion that there happened to everyone, you should speak with the others in this army who are judicious and intelligent, so that we end this war and have peace, since it was time; because the evil has last for so long that I certainly believe that never this loss will be recovered till the end of the world.

2. (of the weather) calm

Related terms

• acordar
• cordura

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cordo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cordo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cordo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cordo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cordo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Adjective

cordō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cordus

References

• cordo 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)