different between discord vs spite

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English

Etymology

Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).

Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discord?re, from discord-, as above.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/

Noun

discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)

1. Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

   • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America

     Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.

2. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
3. (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
4. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

Derived terms

• apple of discord

Related terms

• discordant
• Discordianism

Translations

Pronunciation 2

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Verb

discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
2. (transistive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.

English

Alternative forms

• spight (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?t, IPA^(key): /spa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from Latin d?spici? (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt.

Noun

spite (usually uncountable, plural spites)

1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice

   Synonyms: grudge, rancor.

   He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.

   They did it just for spite.

   • 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil

     sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.

   • Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Translations

Verb

spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)

1. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

   She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

   • The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.

3. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Related terms

• spiteful
• in spite of
• despite

Translations

See also

• malignant
• malicious

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

spite

1. Notwithstanding; despite.

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe

Esperanto

Etymology

From English spite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi.te/

Adverb

spite

1. in spite of
2. defiantly

Usage notes

Often used with the accusative or with the preposition al.

Derived terms

• spit
• spiti

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?i.t?/

Adjective

spite

1. inflection of spity:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural