cord

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a line made of twisted fibers or threads

   The bundle was tied with a cord.

2. 2
   noun

   a light insulated conductor for household use

   I looked for a place to plug in my power cord.

3. 3
   noun

   a unit of amount of wood cut for burning

   We bought a cord of firewood before the winter.

4. 4
   verb

   to stack in cords

   Cord firewood.

Simplified etymology

Cord, recorded in Middle English with the sense “rope,” comes from Latin chorda, itself from Greek khordē, meaning “gut” or “string of a musical instrument.” This cord was later respelled chord in the mathematical sense.

From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (“bowels, intestines”)). Doublet of chord and cuerda. More at yarn and hernia.

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