cor

Symbol

cor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Cornish.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: corps; core (horse–hoarse merger); caw (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

See also

Anagrams

• R.O.C., orc, Orc, cro, ORC, roc, OCR, CRO, RoC, R. O. C., ROC

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾ/ [ˈkoɾ]

Noun

cor m (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of cuer

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan cor, from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

Noun

cor m (plural cors)

1. heart

Derived terms

• amb l'ai al cor
• cor-robat (“captivated”)
• dir-ho de tot cor (“to say it with all the heart; to be sincere”)
• veure's amb cor

See also

Suits in Catalan · colls (layout · text)
cors	diamants	piques	trèvols

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Latin chorus (14th century), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Further reading

• “cor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “cor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cor, corn, from Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: corps, cors

Noun

cor m (plural cors)

1. horn (musical instrument)
2. corn (of the foot)

Further reading

• “cor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• roc

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin color, colōrem.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

Etymology 3

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

From Javanese ꦕꦺꦴꦂ (cor).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃor/ [ˈt͡ʃor]
• Rhymes: -or
• Syllabification: cor

Verb

cor

1. to pour (molten steel, cement, sand, etc.)

   Synonym: tuang

2. to cast metal

Further reading

• “cor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.