cordate
English
Etymology
Latin cord- from cor (“heart”) + -ate.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Homophones: caudate, chordate
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːɹdeɪt/
- Homophone: chordate
Noun
cordate (plural cordates)
- (philosophy) Any animal with a heart.
- 1970, Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosophy of Logic, page 8-9:
- If, for instance, the context:
- (1) Necessarily all cordates are cordates
- 2002, Timothy McCarthy, Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, page 124:
- The organisms in any sample of tigers will almost always happen to exemplify genetic properties more specific than the property shared by exactly the tigers, as well as a number of more inclusive ones such as properties common to all mammals or to all cordates.
- 2008, Peter Loptson, Freedom, Nature, and World, page 78:
- Sciences of cordates — creatures with hearts — are, for example, less general or comprehensive than sciences of living things, and the latter are less comprehensive and general than sciences of moving things.
- 2012, K. Mulligan, Language, Truth and Ontology (page 16)
- It is the coextension problem, the problem of the renates and the cordates, the creatures with kidneys and the creatures with hearts.
- 2021, Ken Akiba, “Vaguenss from the philosophical point of view”, in Apostolos Syropoulos, Basil K. Papadopoulos, editor, Vagueness in the Exact Sciences, page 6:
- However, the property of being a cordate and the property of being a renate are different properties; the former has something to do with hearts and the latter has something to do with kidneys.
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- (archaeology) A heart-shaped hand axe.
- 1977, D. K. Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya, Palaeolithic Europe, page 46:
- The upper loam (E) has been reported to have yielded several white-patinated implements, including a large number of pointed handaxes, cordates, ovates and cleavers.
- 1985, John Wymer, The Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia, page 107:
- Of the 58 ovates, cordates and cleavers examined, 21 have a tranchet sharpened edge, and 14 are twisted.
- 2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic (page 122)
- Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.
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- Misspelling of chordate.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordate.
Usage notes
The sense "any animal with a heart" is chiefly confined to discussion of an example given by Willard Van Orman Quine in his essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". Compare renate.
Adjective
cordate (comparative more cordate, superlative most cordate)
- (botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.
- Synonym: cordiform
Derived terms
- obcordate
Translations
botany: heart-shaped
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Anagrams
- Art Deco, red coat, redcoat
Italian
Noun
cordate f
- plural of cordata
Anagrams
- cardeto, cedrato, detorca
Latin
Adverb
cordātē (not comparable)
- prudently, sagaciously, wisely
Adjective
cordāte
- vocative masculine singular of cordātus
References
- “cordate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cordate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette