Translation
accord, agreement; chord (in music)
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Word origin
From Latin accordare, ad- 'to' plus cor, cordis, 'heart' - to bring hearts together. The musical sense is a later extension of the same word: notes that agree. English chord picked up its h much later by confusion with Greek khorde, a gut string, which is a different word entirely.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- accordare
- English cognates
- accord, chord, concord, courage
Examples
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The two countries finally reached an agreement.
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He played a quiet chord on the guitar.
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We worked in perfect accord for the whole year.
A false seam that is unusually well disguised, because the history behind it is real. Esperanto does have a root , a string on an instrument, from Greek khorde. So looks like a- plus , a thing done to strings, and for a musical chord that reading even makes sense.
It is wrong. - is one root, from Latin ad cor - to the heart. Agreement came first and the musical chord is a metaphor built on it: notes that get on with each other. English tangled the two words up as well, which is why chord is spelt with an h it never earned.
Nothing peels off the front. The derivations run (to be in agreement), i (to reconcile two parties, or to tune an instrument), and interkonsento for a formal agreement on paper.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 4: akordo, abismo, konsulti and 7 more words.