corde
See also: cordé
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French corde, from Old French corde, borrowed from Latin chorda (“gut”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
corde f (plural cordes)
- rope (general)
- (geometry) chord
- (music) chord (of a string instrument)
- chord (vocal chord)
- line (washing line, for hanging clothes to dry)
Derived terms edit
- 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 edit
corde
- inflection of corder:
Further reading edit
- “corde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
corde (plural cordes)
Italian edit
Noun edit
corde f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
corde
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
corde (plural cordes)
- A long, thick length of fibre (often intertwined):
- One of the strings of a string instrument.
- A sinew or the muscular material one is made out of.
- A division of inherited property or goods.
- (rare) A nerve; a cable of bundled neurons.
- (rare) A method to torment captives using a cord.
- (rare) A whip made of multiple cords.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cō̆rde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French corde.
Noun edit
corde f (plural cordes)
Descendants edit
- French: corde
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French corde, borrowed from Latin chorda (“gut”).
Noun edit
corde f (plural cordes)
Derived terms edit
- corde à lînge (“clothesline”)
- cordgi (“ropemaker”)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ).
Noun edit
corde oblique singular, f (oblique plural cordes, nominative singular corde, nominative plural cordes)
Descendants edit
Tarantino edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
corde