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cordate en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɔːdeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɔːɹdeɪt/ (US)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥dés
Proto-Italic *kord
Latin cor(d)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English cordate
From Latin cor(d) (“heart”) + English -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Meanings
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Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.
Forms
Deriveds
subcordate · hemicordate · cordately · semicordate · obcordate
Synonyms
cordiform
Translations (6)
el καρδιόσχημος (botany: heart-shaped) · fi herttamainen (botany: heart-shaped) · pl sercowaty (botany: heart-shaped) · el καρδιοειδής (botany: heart-shaped) · tl pusuin (botany: heart-shaped) · ca cordiforme (botany: heart-shaped)
cordate en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɔːdeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɔːɹdeɪt/ (US)
Etymology
From the substantivation of the above adjective, alternatively straight from Latin cord- (“heart”) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Meanings
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Any animal with a heart.
If, for instance, the context:
1970, Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosophy of Logic, pages 8–9:Sciences of cordates — creatures with hearts — are, for example, less general or comprehensive than sciences of living things, and the latter are less comprehensive and general than sciences of moving things.
2008, Peter Loptson, Freedom, Nature, and World, page 78:The organisms in any sample of tigers will almost always happen to exemplify genetic properties more specific than the property shared by exactly the tigers, as well as a number of more inclusive ones such as properties common to all mammals or to all cordates.
2002, Timothy McCarthy, Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, page 124:However, the property of being a cordate and the property of being a renate are different properties; the former has something to do with hearts and the latter has something to do with kidneys.
2021, Ken Akiba, “Vaguenss from the philosophical point of view”, in Apostolos Syropoulos, Basil K. Papadopoulos, editors, Vagueness in the Exact Sciences, page 6:It is the coextension problem, the problem of the renates and the cordates, the creatures with kidneys and the creatures with hearts.
2012, K. Mulligan, Language, Truth and Ontology, page 16:
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A heart-shaped hand axe.
Of the 58 ovates, cordates and cleavers examined, 21 have a tranchet sharpened edge, and 14 are twisted.
1985, John Wymer, The Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia, page 107:Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.
2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic, page 122:The upper loam (E) has been reported to have yielded several white-patinated implements, including a large number of pointed handaxes, cordates, ovates and cleavers.
1977, D. K. Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya, Palaeolithic Europe, page 46:
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(alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of chordate.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordate.
Forms
wikipedia: Two Dogmas of Empiricism · wikipedia: Willard Van Orman Quine