chordus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of uncertain origin.[1] But see Latin hortus (“garden”), Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos, “feeding ground, fodder”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʰor.dus/, [ˈkʰɔrd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.dus/, [ˈkɔrd̪us]
Adjective
chordus (feminine chorda, neuter chordum); first/second-declension adjective
- (originally, of animals) late-born
- produced late (or out of season)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | chordus | chorda | chordum | chordī | chordae | chorda | |
Genitive | chordī | chordae | chordī | chordōrum | chordārum | chordōrum | |
Dative | chordō | chordō | chordīs | ||||
Accusative | chordum | chordam | chordum | chordōs | chordās | chorda | |
Ablative | chordō | chordā | chordō | chordīs | |||
Vocative | chorde | chorda | chordum | chordī | chordae | chorda |
Descendants
- ⇒ Italian: cordesco
- Vulgar Latin: *cordārium (see there for further descendants)
References
- “chordus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- chordus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cordus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 136
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