different between chord vs choro

English

Alternative forms

• (music): cord (dated)

Etymology

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek (Doric) ????? (khordá), (Ionic) ????? (khord?, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??(?)d/
• (US) enPR: kôrd, IPA^(key): /k??d/
• Homophones: cord, cored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

chord (plural chords)

2. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
3. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
4. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
   1. (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
5. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
6. (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
7. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
8. The string of a musical instrument.
9. (anatomy) A cord.
10. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.

Derived terms

• mixed-interval chord
• strike a chord, touch a chord
• glasschord

Translations

Verb

chord (third-person singular simple present chords, present participle chording, simple past and past participle chorded)

1. (transitive) To write chords for.
2. (music) To accord; to harmonize together.

   This note chords with that one.

3. (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
   • 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day

     When Jubal struck the chorded shell.

   • 1862, Henry Ward Beecher, Eyes and Ears

     Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.

Translations

See also

• simultaneity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese choro (“lament”).

Noun

choro (usually uncountable, plural choros)

1. (music) A genre of Brazilian popular music

Further reading

• choro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Oroch

Latin

Noun

chor?

1. dative singular of chorus
2. ablative singular of chorus

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Back-formation from chorar. For the origin of the music sense there exist various theories:

• a fusion of choro (from chorar) and Latin chorus
• a corruption of choromeleiros, musicians during the Brazilian colonial period
• a corruption of xolo, a type of dance from Brazilian fazendas.

Alternative forms

• chôro (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /??o.?u/

Noun

choro m (plural choros)

1. crying

   Synonym: pranto

2. cry
3. wailing
4. (music) choro (Brazilian popular music genre)

   Synonym: chorinho

Related terms

• chorar

Further reading

• choro on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.?u/

Verb

choro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of chorar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??o?o/, [?t??o.?o]

Etymology 1

From Quechua churu (“elegant person”).

Alternative forms

• chorro

Adjective

choro (feminine chora, masculine plural choros, feminine plural choras)

1. (Chile, colloquial) cool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay

2. (Chile, colloquial) brave and/or aggressive

   Synonym: fresco

Derived terms

• chori

Noun

choro m (plural choros)

1. (South America) mussel

   Synonym: mejillón

2. (Chile, vulgar) vulva

   Synonym: vulva

3. (Chile) Chilean mussel

Derived terms

• chorear
• choreza
• achorado

Etymology 2

From Caló choro (“thief”), from Romani ?or, from Sanskrit ??? (cora, “thief”).

Noun

choro m (plural choros)

1. (South America, Spain, vulgar) petty thief, pickpocket

   Synonyms: ladronzuelo, chorizo, ratero, carterista

2. (Mexico, colloquial) lip service, empty talk
3. (Mexico, colloquial) charlatan, quack

   Synonym: charlatán

Further reading

• “choro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.