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Cord – Etymology, Origin & Meaning – Etymonline

January 20, 2026

Meaning “string of a musical instrument” is from 1660s (earlier this was cord). The geometry sense “straight line intersecting a curve” is from 1550s; figurative meaning “feeling, emotion” first attested 1784, from the notion of the heart or mind as a stringed instrument.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cord

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