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: corps; core (horse–hoarse merger); caw (non-rhotic)

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

Borrowed 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾ/, [ˈkoɾ]

cor m (plural cores)

1. (dated) Alternative form of cuer

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

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

cor m (plural cors)

1. heart

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

Suits in Catalan · colls (layout · text)
cors	diamants	piques	trèvols

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɔr]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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 cornū, 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)

• cornu

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

• roc

Inherited 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

Inherited 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Javanese cor.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃor/ [ˈt͡ʃor]
• Rhymes: -or
• Syllabification: cor

cor

1. to pour (molten steel, cement, sand, etc.)

   Synonym: tuang

2. to cast metal

• “cor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Derived 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”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cor	chor	gcor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

• core, cour

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

cor m

1. heart

cor m (apocopated)

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

Judeo-Tat numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: cor     Ordinal: corimyn

Inherited from Classical Persian چَار (čār).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoɾ/

cor

1. four

• Нафталиев, М. Н. (2015) “cor”, in Е. М. Назарова, editor, Еврейско (джуури)-русский словарь [Juhuri–Russian Dictionary]‎^[3], Moscow: СТМЭГИ, page 74a

Inherited 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 Latin) 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^[4], 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

Inherited from Latin cornū.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

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

1. horn (musical instrument used to produce sound)

• buisine
• corne

• French: cor

Inherited 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

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cor	—	—
Vocative	cuir	—	—
Accusative	corN	—	—
Genitive	cuirL	—	—
Dative	corL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cor	chor	cor pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Inherited 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

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vermelho laranja amarelo verde azul violeta negro , preto cinzento branco
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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 (UK), color (US)
2. complexion

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cor.

• furta-cor

• corar
• colorar
• colorir

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kor

Inherited 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

Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text)

branco, alvo, cândido	cinza, gris, cinzento	preto, negro, atro
vermelho, encarnado, rubro, salmão; carmim	laranja, cor de laranja; castanho, marrom	amarelo, lúteo; creme, ocre
verde-limão	verde	verde-água; verde-menta
ciano, turquesa; azul-petróleo	azul-celeste	azul, índigo, anil
violeta, lilás	magenta; roxo, púrpura	rosa, cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque

• “cor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “cor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor/
• Rhymes: -or

cor n (plural coruri)

1. choir (group of singers)

• hor, horiu — obsolete

• coral
• corist

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

cor n (plural coruri)

1. (obsolete) gathering, circle, society
2. (Transylvania) Synonym of horă (“hora”)
3. (Transylvania) bunch of hay arranged in squares or circles for making haybales

• coriu — obsolete

• cori

• cor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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

cor m (plural cors)

1. (anatomy) heart

Inherited 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?
   Cor math.

   How are you?
   I'm fine.
   

   (literally, “What's your condition? Good 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]‎^[5], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n. Cognate with Italian cuore.

cor m (plural cori)

1. heart

• corexin

Inherited 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

• 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

Cognate with Northern Kurdish jor.

cor

1. top (uppermost part)