chorda

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, tripe”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰor.da/, [ˈkʰɔrd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.da/, [ˈkɔrd̪ä]

chorda f (genitive chordae); first declension

1. tripe, intestine (as food)
2. catgut, string of a musical instrument
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.108:

     reddidit icta suōs pollice chorda sonōs

     [Each] string, struck by his thumb, rendered its notes.

3. rope, cord for binding a slave

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First-declension noun.

• chordacista
• septemchordis
• trichordis

• “chorda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “chorda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chorda 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)
• chorda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.