cor

Clipping of English Cornish.

cor

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cornish terms

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

cor

1. (Cockney UK) Expression of surprise.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     […] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.

• See Thesaurus:wow

• cor blimey

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

• kor, core

cor (plural cors)

1. (historical units of measure) Any of various former units of volume, particularly:
   1. A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
   2. Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
   3. A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.

• homer, omer

• (liquid volume): log (¹⁄₇₂₀ cor); cab, kab (¹⁄₁₈₀ cor); hin (¹⁄₆₀ cor); bath (¹⁄₁₀ cor)
• (dry volume): See homer

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾ/ [ˈkoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: cor

cor m (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) alternative form of cuer

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencia) [ˈkɔr]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, most parts) [ˈkɔr], (some parts of Menorca) [ˈkɔ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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cor m (plural cors)

1. heart

• 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

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɔr]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔɾ]

cor m (plural cors)

1. chorus

• coral
• corejar
• corista

• “cor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “cor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: corps, cors

cor m (plural cors)

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

• corne
• cornu

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

• roc

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

• color

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoɾ], [ˈkoːɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: cor

cor f (plural cores)

1. color, hue

• de cor

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾ]

cor m (plural cores)

1. (archaic) heart

   Synonym: corazón

• acorar
• corazón

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾ]

cor m (plural cores)

1. alternative form of calor

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “coor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cor”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

From Javanese ꦕꦺꦴꦂ (cor).

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

cor

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

   Synonym: tuang

2. to cast metal

• “cor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kɞɾˠ/^[2][3][4]
• (Aran, also) IPA^(key): /koːɾˠ/^[3]

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural cora or coranna)

1. twist, turn, turning movement
2. (fishing) cast; haul from cast
3. (music) lively turn; lively air
4. (dance) reel

• Alternative plural: coranna

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural coir)

1. agreement, contract; guarantee, pledge

cor m (genitive singular coir)

1. verbal noun of coir
2. tiredness, exhaustion

cor (present analytic corann, future analytic corfaidh, verbal noun coradh, past participle cortha)

1. to turn

• cas

• feoil chortha f (“tainted meat”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cor”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 246; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “coraim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 247; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• core, cour

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

cor m

1. heart

cor m (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of core
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 13–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ma poi ch’i’ fui al piè d’un colle giunto,
     là dove terminava quella valle
     che m’avea di paura il cor compunto, […]

     But then, when I had reached the foot of a hill,
     there where that valley ended
     which had pierced my heart with fear, […]

Judeo-Tat numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: cor     Ordinal: corimyn

Inherited from Classical Persian چَار (čār).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoɾ/

cor

1. four

• Нафталиев, М. Н. (2015), “cor”, in Е. М. Назарова, editor, Еврейско (джуури)-русский словарь [Juhuri–Russian Dictionary]‎^[1], Moscow: СТМЭГИ, page 74a

Inherited from Proto-Italic *kord, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d- (“heart”).^[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek κῆρ (kêr), κᾰρδῐ́ᾱ (kărdĭ́ā), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō), Old English heorte (English heart), Sanskrit हृद॑य (hṛ́daya), Hittite 𒆠𒅕 (kir), Old Church Slavonic срьдьце (srĭdĭce).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr]

cor n (genitive cordis); third declension

1. (anatomy) heart

   Synonym: pectus

2. (figuratively) soul, mind

   Synonyms: animus, pectus

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

The expected genitive plural cordum is not attested classically, and cordium is only attested as late as the Vulgate.

• Vulgar Latin: *corem m (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: cord

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr]

cōr (not comparable)

1. Old Latin form of cūr (“why; for what reason; wherefore; to what purpose; from what motive”)

• “cor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am gradually convinced that..: addūcor, ut credam
    
  • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
    

• corn

Inherited from Latin cornū.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

cor oblique singular, m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cor)

1. horn (musical instrument used to produce sound)

• buisine
• corne

• French: cor

From Proto-Celtic *koros (“casting, a throw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾ/

cor m (genitive cuir, no plural)

1. verbal noun of fo·ceird

• Middle Irish: cor
  • Irish: cor, cur
  • Scottish Gaelic: cur
  • Manx: cur

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

cor m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cor)

1. heart (organ which pumps blood)
2. heart (metaphorically, human emotion)
   • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Tant ai mo cor ple de joya:

     Tant ai mo cor ple de joya

     My heart is so full of joy

• coratge

• Occitan: còr

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coor f, from Latin colōrem m, from Old Latin colos (“covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal”). Doublet of color. Compare Galician cor and Spanish color.

• côr (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: cor

cor f (plural cores)

1. colour (UK), color (US)

   Synonym: color

2. complexion

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cor.

• furta-cor

• corar
• colorar
• colorir

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kor

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

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾ, (Brazil) -ɔʁ
• Hyphenation: cor

cor m (plural cores)

1. (poetic) heart

• de cor

• coração

Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text)

branco, alvo	cinza, gris, cinzento	preto, negro
vermelho, encarnado, rubro, salmão; carmim	laranja, cor de laranja; castanho, marrom	amarelo; creme, ocre
verde-limão	verde	verde-água; verde-menta
ciano, turquesa; azul-petróleo	azul-bebê / azul-bebé, azul-celeste	azul, índigo, anil
violeta, lilás	magenta; roxo, púrpura	rosa, cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque

• “cor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “cor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

Borrowed from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”), or borrowed from Latin chorus, Italian coro, German Chor. Doublet of horă.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor/
• Rhymes: -or

cor n (plural coruri)

1. choir (group of singers)

• hor, horiu — obsolete

• coral
• corist

Inherited from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós). Doublet of horă.

cor n (plural coruri)

1. (obsolete) gathering, circle, society
2. (Transylvania) synonym of horă (“hora”)
3. (Transylvania) bunch of hay arranged in squares or circles for making haybales

• coriu — obsolete

• cori

• “cor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

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

cor m (plural cors)

1. (anatomy) heart

From Old Irish cor, verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to set, put”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔɾ/

cor m (genitive singular coir or cuir)

1. condition, state

   Dè do chor?
   Cor math.

   How are you?
   I'm fine.
   

   (literally, “What's your condition? Good condition”)

2. condition, eventuality, circumstance

   air chor sam bith ― on any condition, on any account

   air chor 's gu ― on condition that (cf also derived terms)

3. method, manner
4. custom
5. surety
6. term or condition (of a treaty)
7. progress

• air chor 's gu (“so that/with the result that”)
• air a h-uile cor (“by all means; at all costs”)
• cor-inntinn (“state of mind”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “cor”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾ/ [ˈkoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: cor

cor m (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) heart

   Synonym: corazón

• “cor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n. Cognate with Italian cuore.

cor m (plural cori)

1. heart

• corexin

From Middle Welsh corr, from Proto-Brythonic *korr (compare Old Cornish cor, Middle Breton corr).

• IPA^(key): /kɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

cor m (plural corrod, diminutive corryn)

1. (literary) dwarf, pygmy, little urchin

   Synonym: corrach

2. spider

   Synonyms: pryf cop, copyn, corryn

3. (obsolete) shrew (Sorex)

   Synonyms: llyg, chwistlen

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “dwarf”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[3], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cor”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Cognate with Northern Kurdish jor.

cor

1. top (uppermost part)