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cor

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cor"

Translingual

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cor

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Cornish.

English

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Etymology 1

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A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

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cor

  1. (Cockney UK) Expression of surprise.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

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Noun

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cor (plural cors)

  1. (historical units of measure) Various former units of volume, particularly:
    1. A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
    2. Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
    3. A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.
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Meronyms
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  • (liquid volume): log (1⁄720 cor); cab, kab (1⁄180 cor); hin (1⁄60 cor); bath (1⁄10 cor)
  • (dry volume): See homer

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terms unrelated etymologically

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Asturian

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cor m (plural cores)

  1. (dated) Alternative form of cuer

Catalan

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ca

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan cor, from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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cor m (plural cors)

  1. heart
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Suits in Catalan · colls (layout · text)
       
cors diamants piques trèvols

Etymology 2

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Probably borrowed from Latin chorus (14th century), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

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cor m (plural cors)

  1. chorus
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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French cor, corn, from Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.

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cor m (plural cors)

  1. horn (musical instrument)
  2. corn (of the foot)

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin color, colōrem.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkoɾ], [ˈkoːɾ]

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cor f (plural cores)

  1. color, hue
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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Noun

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cor m (plural cores)

  1. (archaic) heart
    Synonym: corazón
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Etymology 3

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cor m (plural cores)

  1. Alternative form of calor

References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “cor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

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Etymology

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Derived from Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).[1]

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cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural cora or coranna)

  1. twist, turn, turning movement
  2. (fishing) cast; haul from cast
  3. (music) lively turn; lively air
  4. (dance) reel

Declension

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Declension of cor

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cor cora
Vocative a choir a chora
Genitive coir cor
Dative cor cora

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cor na cora
Genitive an choir na gcor
Dative leis an gcor

don chor

leis na cora

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Noun

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cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural coir)

  1. agreement, contract; guarantee, pledge

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Declension of cor

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cor coir
Vocative a choir a chora
Genitive coir cor
Dative cor coir

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cor na coir
Genitive an choir na gcor
Dative leis an gcor

don chor

leis na coir

Noun

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cor m (genitive singular coir)

  1. verbal noun of coir
  2. tiredness, exhaustion

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Declension of cor

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cor
Vocative a choir
Genitive coir
Dative cor

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an cor
Genitive an choir
Dative leis an gcor

don chor

Verb

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cor (present analytic corann, future analytic corfaidh, verbal noun coradh, past participle cortha)

  1. turn

Conjugation

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conjugation of cor (first conjugation – A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present coraim corann tú;
corair† 		corann sé, sí coraimid corann sibh corann siad;
coraid† 		a chorann; a choras /
a gcorann*; a gcoras* 		cortar
past chor mé; choras chor tú; chorais chor sé, sí choramar; chor muid chor sibh; chorabhair chor siad; choradar a chor /
ar chor* 		coradh
past habitual chorainn / gcorainn‡‡ chortá / gcortᇇ choradh sé, sí / gcoradh sé, s퇇 choraimis; choradh muid / gcoraimis‡‡; gcoradh muid‡‡ choradh sibh / gcoradh sibh‡‡ choraidís; choradh siad / gcoraidís‡‡; gcoradh siad‡‡ a choradh /
a gcoradh* 		chortaí / gcorta퇇
future corfaidh mé;
corfad 		corfaidh tú;
corfair† 		corfaidh sé, sí corfaimid;
corfaidh muid 		corfaidh sibh corfaidh siad;
corfaid† 		a chorfaidh; a chorfas /
a gcorfaidh*; a gcorfas* 		corfar
conditional chorfainn / gcorfainn‡‡ chorfá / gcorfᇇ chorfadh sé, sí / gcorfadh sé, s퇇 chorfaimis; chorfadh muid / gcorfaimis‡‡; gcorfadh muid‡‡ chorfadh sibh / gcorfadh sibh‡‡ chorfaidís; chorfadh siad / gcorfaidís‡‡; gcorfadh siad‡‡ a chorfadh /
a gcorfadh* 		chorfaí / gcorfa퇇
subjunctive present go gcora mé;
go gcorad† 		go gcora tú;
go gcorair† 		go gcora sé, sí go gcoraimid;
go gcora muid 		go gcora sibh go gcora siad;
go gcoraid† 		— go gcortar
past dá gcorainn dá gcortá dá gcoradh sé, sí dá gcoraimis;
dá gcoradh muid 		dá gcoradh sibh dá gcoraidís;
dá gcoradh siad 		— dá gcortaí
imperative coraim cor coradh sé, sí coraimis coraigí;
coraidh† 		coraidís — cortar
verbal noun coradh
past participle cortha

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cor chor gcor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 267, page 95

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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cor m

  1. heart

Italian

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cor m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of core
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 13–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ma poi ch’i’ fui al piè d’un colle giunto,
      là dove terminava quella valle
      che m’avea di paura il cor compunto, […]
      But then, when I had reached the foot of a hill,
      there where that valley ended
      which had pierced my heart with fear, […]

Latin

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Italic *kord, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-. Cognate with Ancient Greek καρδίᾱ (kardíā), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō), Old English heorte, English heart, Sanskrit हृदय (hṛdaya), Hittite 𒆠𒅕 (kir), Old Church Slavonic срьдьце (srĭdĭce).

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cor n (genitive cordis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) heart
    Synonym: pectus
  2. (figuratively) soul, mind
    Synonyms: animus, pectus

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Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cor corda
Genitive cordis cordium
cordum
Dative cordī cordibus
Accusative cor corda
Ablative corde cordibus
Vocative cor corda

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  • Vulgar Latin: *corem m (see there for further descendants)
  • → Romanian: cord

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  • cor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cor 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)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • I am gradually convinced that..: addūcor, ut credam
    • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)

Old French

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Inherited from Latin cornū.

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cor oblique singular, m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cor)

  1. horn (musical instrument used to produce sound)

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Celtic *koros (“casting, a throw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn”).

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cor m (genitive cuir, no plural)

  1. verbal noun of fo·ceird

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cor — —
Vocative cuir — —
Accusative corN — —
Genitive cuirL — —
Dative corL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cor chor cor
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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cor m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cor)

  1. heart (organ which pumps blood)
  2. heart (metaphorically, human emotion)
    • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Tant ai mo cor ple de joya:
      Tant ai mo cor ple de joya
      My heart is so full of joy
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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coor f, from Latin colōrem m, from Old Latin colos (“covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal”). Compare Galician cor and Spanish color.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: cor

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cor f (plural cores)

  1. colour ([UK]]), color (US)
  2. complexion
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:cor.

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  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: kor

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾ, (Brazil) -ɔʁ
  • Hyphenation: cor

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cor m (plural cores)

  1. heart
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Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text)
     branco, alvo, cândido      cinza, gris,
cinzento 		     preto, negro, atro
             vermelho,
encarnado, rubro,
salmão; carmim 		             laranja,
cor de laranja; castanho,
marrom 		             amarelo, lúteo; creme,
ocre
             verde-limão              verde              verde-água; verde-menta
             ciano,
turquesa; azul-petróleo 		             azul-celeste              azul, índigo, anil
             violeta,
lilás 		             magenta; roxo, púrpura              rosa,
cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque

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Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”), or borrowed from Latin chorus, Italian coro, German Chor.

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cor n (plural coruri)

  1. choir, chorus (group of singers)
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Declension of cor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cor corul (niște) coruri corurile
genitive/dative (unui) cor corului (unor) coruri corurilor
vocative corule corurilor
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

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cor n (plural coruri)

  1. gathering, circle, society
  2. bunch of hay arranged in squares or circles for making haybales
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Declension of cor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cor corul (niște) coruri corurile
genitive/dative (unui) cor corului (unor) coruri corurilor
vocative corule corurilor
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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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cor m (plural cors)

  1. (anatomy) heart

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Irish cor (“act of putting, placing; setting up, etc.; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw (in wrestling); twist, coil; twist, detour, circuit in road, etc.; tune, melody; contract; surety, guarantor; act of overthrowing, defeating; defeat, reverse; state, condition, plight; act of tiring; tiredness, fatigue”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“sets, puts, places; throws, casts; casts down, overthrows; puts forth, emits, sends out; launches; utters, makes; raises (a shout, cry); performs, executes, wages”).

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cor m (genitive singular coir or cuir)

  1. condition, state
    Dè do chor?
    Cor math.
    How are you?
    I'm fine.
    (literally, “What's your condition? Good condition”)
  2. condition, eventuality, circumstance
    air chor sam bith ― on any condition, on any account
    air chor 's gu ― on condition that (cf also derived terms)
  3. method, manner
  4. custom
  5. surety
  6. term or condition (of a treaty)
  7. progress

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cor chor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cor”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish cor, cuer, from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkoɾ/ [ˈkoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: cor

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cor m (plural cores)

  1. (obsolete) heart
    Synonym: corazón
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Venetian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n. Cognate with Italian cuore.

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cor m (plural cori)

  1. heart
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Welsh

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *korr (compare Old Cornish cor, Middle Breton corr).

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cor m (plural corrod)

  1. dwarf, pygmy, little urchin
  2. spider; shrew

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cor gor nghor chor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Etymology

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Cognate with Northern Kurdish jor.

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cor

  1. top (uppermost part)
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