cor

cor

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

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: caw (non-rhotic accents only), corps, core (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

cor

1. (Cockney UK) Expression of surprise.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     […] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.

• See Thesaurus:wow

• cor blimey

From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

• kor, core

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.

• homer, omer

• (liquid volume): log (¹⁄₇₂₀ cor); cab, kab (¹⁄₁₈₀ cor); hin (¹⁄₆₀ cor); bath (¹⁄₁₀ cor)
• (dry volume): See homer

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

• CRO, OCR, ORC, R. O. C., R.O.C., ROC, RoC, orc, roc

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencian) [ˈkɔr]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) (most parts) [ˈkɔr], (some parts of Menorca) [ˈkɔ]

cor m (plural cors)

1. heart

• amb l'ai al cor
• dir-ho de tot cor (“to say it with all the heart; to be sincere”)
• veure's amb cor

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɔr]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkɔɾ]

cor m (plural cors)

1. chorus

• coral
• corejar
• corista

• “cor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

• Audio

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• Homophones: corps, cors

cor m (plural cors)

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

• à cor et à cri
• cor anglais
• cor de chasse
• cor des Alpes

• cornu

• “cor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• roc

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

• color

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoɾ], [ˈkoːɾ]

cor f (plural cores)

1. color, hue

• de cor

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾ]

cor m (plural cores)

1. (archaic) heart

   Synonym: corazón

• acorar
• corazón

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾ]

cor m (plural cores)

1. Alternative form of calor

• “cor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “coor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “coor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kɞɾˠ/[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kʌɾˠ/[3]

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

• Alternative plural: coranna

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural coir)

1. agreement, contract; guarantee, pledge

cor m (genitive singular coir)

1. verbal noun of coir
2. tiredness, exhaustion

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

1. turn

• cas

• feoil chortha f (“tainted meat”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• core, cour

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

cor m

1. heart

cor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of core
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 13–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd 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, […]

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).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor/, [kɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor/, [kɔr]

cor n (genitive cordis); third declension

1. (anatomy) heart

   Synonym: pectus

2. (figuratively) soul, mind

   Synonyms: animus, pectus

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

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

• 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, 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)
    

• corn

From Latin cornu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

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

1. horn (instrument used to produce sound)

• buisine
• corne

• French: cor

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

• IPA^(key): /kor/

cor m (genitive cuir, no plural)

1. verbal noun of fo·ceird

• Middle Irish: cor
  • Irish: cor, cur
  • Scottish Gaelic: cur
  • Manx: cur

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

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

• coratge

• Occitan: còr

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.

• côr (obsolete)

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

cor f (plural cores)

1. colour (Commonwealth English), color (American English)
2. complexion

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cor.

• corar
• colorar
• colorir

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kor

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

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

cor m (plural cores)

1. heart

• de cor
• coração

• “cor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cor” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

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

cor n (plural coruri)

1. choir, chorus (group of singers)

• coral
• corist

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

cor n (plural coruri)

1. a gathering, circle, society
2. a bunch of hay arranged in squares or circles for making haybales

• horă

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

cor m (plural cors)

1. (anatomy) heart

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”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔɾ/

cor m (genitive singular coir or cuir)

1. condition, state

   Dè do chor? ― How are you? (literally, “what's your 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

• air chor 's gu (“so that/with the result that”)
• air a h-uile cor (“by all means; at all costs”)
• cor-inntinn (“state of mind”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cor”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

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

cor m (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) heart

   Synonym: corazón

• “cor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n. Compare Italian cuore.

cor m (plural cori)

1. heart

• corexin

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

cor m (plural corrod)

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

• (dwarf): corrach
• (spider): cop, copyn, corryn

• corbennog (“sprat”)
• corbys (“lentils”)
• corhwyaid (“teals”)
• corgimwch (“prawn”)
• corgi (“corgi”)
• corfulfran (“pygmy cormorant”)
• corhwyad, corhwyaden (“Eurasian teal”)

• 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

Related to Northern Kurdish jor.

cor

1. top (uppermost part)