Ancient Greek

Noun

χορδή • ‎(khordḗ) f ‎(genitive χορδῆς); first declension

1. (in the plural) guts, intestines
2. string made of gut
3. string, chord
4. sausage

Inflection

Descendants

• English: chord, cord
• Greek: χορδή f ‎(chordí)
• Latin: chorda
• Russian: хо́рда f ‎(xórda)

References

• χορδή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χορδή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορδή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «χορδή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «χορδή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chord idem, page 131.
  • gut idem, page 379.
  • sausage idem, page 735.
  • string idem, page 826.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

χορδή • ‎(chordí) f ‎(plural χορδές)

1. bow string
2. (geometry) chord (of a circle)
3. (music) string (of violin, piano, etc)
4. (anatomy) vocal cord, vocal fold
5. (physics) string

   θεωρία χορδών (string theory)

6. any long, very thin structure

Declension

See also

• συγχορδία f ‎(synchordía, “musical chord”)

External links

• Θεωρία χορδών on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el