cordel
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish cordel (“surveying rope, 50 varas”), from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to cord + -el.
Noun
[edit]cordel (plural cordels or cordeles)
- (historical) Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.
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[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: cor‧del
Noun
[edit]cordel m (plural cordéis)
- strand (short string)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope, cord, string”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to corda + -el.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cordel m (plural cordeles)
- string (thin thread)
- Synonym: mecate
- twine (thin cord or rope)
- Synonym: cuerda
- (historical) chain (surverying or measuring rope, typically of 50 or 100 varas)
- (historical) cordel, Spanish chain (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.9 m in 19th-century Spain)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cordel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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