Masculine
cordel
- (masculine) string (thin thread)
- (masculine) twine (thin cord or rope)
- (historical, masculine) chain (surverying or measuring rope, typically of 50 or 100 varas)
- (historical, masculine) cordel, Spanish chain (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.9 m in 19th-century Spain)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cor‧del
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koɾˈdel/
Etymology
In summary
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.
Schnur
fio
corde
koord
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