cœur
French
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) heart
- (geometry) heart, heart shape
- heart (love)
- (card games) hearts (the suit)
- (physics) the core of a nuclear reactor
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French coeur inherited from Old French cuer (heart) inherited from Latin cor (heart, mind, soul) inherited from Proto-Italic *kord inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (heart).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱḗr
Gloss
heart
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
心
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticor English
- cordiform English
- courage English
- *accordo, *accordō, accordāre Latin
- *accordāre Latin
- *coraticum Latin
- *corāta Latin
- *corāticum Latin
- *corātiō Latin
- *corātiō, *coratio, *corātiōne Latin
- concors Latin
- cor Latin
- cordatus Latin
- cordifolius Latin
- praecordia Latin
- recordor Latin
- socors Latin
- vecors Latin
- Courage German
- kőr Hungarian
- kőrt Hungarian
- kőrök Hungarian
- cuore Italian
- -er French
- casse-cœur French
- casser French
- courage French
- courageux French
- é- French
- écœurement French
- écœurer French
- cordial Spanish, Castilian
- cuerdo Spanish, Castilian
- κῆρ Ancient Greek
- *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥d-, *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European
- coragem Portuguese
- *hertô Proto-Germanic
- kier Polish
- kuraż Polish
- हृदय Sanskrit
- elne Middle English
- *sьrdьce Proto-Slavic
- corage Old French
- corageus Old French
- cuer Old French
- koro Esperanto
- cord Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- curaj Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cœur Norman
- tchoeu Norman
- tchoeur Norman
- кураж Bulgarian
- coeur Middle French
- corage Middle French
- cor Old Portuguese
- coraçon Old Portuguese
- *kridyom Proto-Celtic
- кураж Macedonian
- *ȷ́ʰŕ̥dayam Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *kord Proto-Italic
- cor Romansh
- corazón Asturian
- cûr Friulian
- cor Old Occitan
- coratge Old Occitan
- coraçon Old Spanish
- cori Sicilian
- cor Venetian
- kurad Volapük
- Kraasch Low German
- *śirˀdís Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *śḗr Proto-Balto-Slavic
- cheu Ligurian
- kè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- leker Mauritian Creole
- cour Walloon
- côr Bourguignon
- core Neapolitan
- cor Istriot
- core Istriot
- corazón Aragonese
- leker Seychellois Creole
- côr Franco-Provençal
- 𒆠𒅕 Hittite
- keur Picard
- tcheur Picard
- قُرَجّون Mozarabic
- côre Tarantino
- 𒍝𒀀𒅈𒍝 Luwian
- 𔖪𔖱𔖪 Luwian