accord

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an agreement or harmony between parties; to grant or be consistent

   The two sides finally reached an accord on trade.

Simplified etymology

Accord, recorded in Middle English, comes from Latin accordere, literally “to bring to heart.” Its sense of bringing things into agreement or harmony later supplied the musical term chord.

From Old French acorder ('to reconcile'), from Vulgar Latin accordāre ('to be of one heart'), from Latin ad- ('to') + cor ('heart').

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