cuerda
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuerda (plural cuerdas)
- (Caribbean, historical) A unit of land area equivalent to 3,929 square meters.
Translations
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”).
Noun
[edit]cuerda f (plural cuerdes)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cuerda
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”). Doublet of corda.
Noun
[edit]cuerda f (plural cuerdas)
- rope, cord, string
- Synonym: cable
- (geometry, architecture, aeronautics) chord
- (music) string (of a musical stringed instrument)
- clockwork
- (historical) Synonym of cordel (a traditional unit of distance)
- (Caribbean, historical) cuerda (unit of land area)
Hyponyms
[edit]- cuerda de saltar (“jump rope”)
- cuerda floja (“tightrope”)
- cuerda umbilical
- cuerdas vocales
- supercuerda
Derived terms
[edit]- aflojar la cuerda (“to loosen the rope”)
- bajo cuerda
- contra las cuerdas
- cuerda al aire
- cuerda de presos
- cuerda dorsal
- cuerda falsa
- cuerda sin fin
- cuerda vale
- dar cuerda
- echar una cuerda
- en cuerda floja
- en la cuerda floja
- estirar las cuerdas
- instrumento de cuerda
- llevar la cuerda
- mozo de cuerda
- por debajo de cuerda
- quedarle cuerda
- ser de la otra cuerda
- tener cuerda para rato
- teoría de cuerdas
- tirar de la cuerda (“tug-of-war”)
- tormento de cuerda
- trato de cuerda
Further reading
[edit]- “cuerda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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