gord

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔː(ɹ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.

• gourd

gord (plural gords)

1. (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.^[1]
   • c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     And thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, But gords or nine-pins

From Proto-Slavic *gordъ. Doublet of yard and garth.

gord (plural gords)

1. (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.

• GDOR, ROGD

Inherited from Latin gurdus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡoɾt]

gord (feminine gorda, masculine plural gords, feminine plural gordes)

1. (Valencia, Eivissa) fat

   Synonym: gras

2. stale, old, dry

   Synonyms: dur, sec

• gordària
• gordesa

• “gord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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gord

1. inflection of gorden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from Gaulish *gorton ‘hedge, enclosure’; cf. Irish gort, Cornish gorth, Welsh garth.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔʁ/

gord m (plural gords)

1. crawl, a stake enclosure at a body of water to catch fish

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

From Portuguese gordo (“fat”), from Old Galician-Portuguese gordo, from Latin gurdus.

gord

1. (Diu) fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one’s body)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:

     Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔrt/

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

gord m inan

1. castle; court

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gorďь.

gord f

1. barn

• Polański, Kazimierz (1971) “gord”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich (in Polish), number 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 170
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “gord”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 66

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъrdъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡôːrd/

gȏrd (Cyrillic spelling го̑рд, definite gȏrdī, comparative gordiji)

1. proud
2. arrogant

• górdōst

• ponosan

• “gord”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024