English Explanatory Dictionary

cordel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.

Word forms

cordel cordels cordeles

Etymology

From Spanish cordel (“surveying rope, 50 varas”), from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to cord + -el.

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