cordo
See also: cordó
Catalan
Verb
cordo
- first-person singular present indicative form of cordar
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cordo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from Latin cordatus, from Latin cor, cordis.[1] Cognate with Spanish cuerdo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɔɾðʊ]
Adjective
cordo m (feminine singular corda, masculine plural cordos, feminine plural cordas)
- sane; prudent; judicious
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 525:
- Et uós, que auedes tã bõo syso, que entẽdedes o mal et o destroymento et a perda et a cofondiçõ que y a todos acaesçeu, deujades de falar cõ os outros que son [en] esta oste cordos et entẽdidos, en maneyra que dessemos fin a esta guerra et ouuessemos paz, que ja tenpo era; ca tãto ha ja durado o mal que eu ben creo que nũca esta perda será cobrada ata a fin do mũdo.
- And you, who have such a good judgement, who understand the damage and destruction and loss and confusion that there happened to everyone, you should speak with the others in this army who are judicious and intelligent, so that we end this war and have peace, since it was time; because the evil has last for so long that I certainly believe that never this loss will be recovered till the end of the world.
- Et uós, que auedes tã bõo syso, que entẽdedes o mal et o destroymento et a perda et a cofondiçõ que y a todos acaesçeu, deujades de falar cõ os outros que son [en] esta oste cordos et entẽdidos, en maneyra que dessemos fin a esta guerra et ouuessemos paz, que ja tenpo era; ca tãto ha ja durado o mal que eu ben creo que nũca esta perda será cobrada ata a fin do mũdo.
- Home cordo ao leme (proverb, 18th century) ― Prudent man at the helm
- Synonym: acordado
- Antonyms: louco, sandeu, tolo
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 525:
- (of the weather) calm
Related terms
- acordar
- cordura
References
- “cordo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cordo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cordo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cordo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cordo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “cuerdo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Latin
Adjective
cordō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cordus
References
- cordo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)