chorda

See also: Chorda

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Noun

chorda f (genitive chordae); first declension

  1. tripe, intestine (as food)
  2. catgut, string of a musical instrument
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 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

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Derived terms
  • chordacista
  • septemchordis
  • trichordis

Descendants
Descendants of chorda in other languages
  • →? Albanian: kordhë
  • → Byzantine Greek: κόρδα (kórda)
  • → Dutch: koorde
  • Eastern Romance
  • ⇒ English: chorda tympani
  • Italo-Dalmatian
  • → Old French: corde (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Occitan: corda
    • → Catalan: corda
    • → Occitan: còrda
  • Rhaeto-Romance
  • → Sardinian: codra, corda, colda
  • → Venetian: corda
  • West Iberian

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
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