Etymology

discord

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Today it means: Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord. Full definition →

Middle English descorde ← Old French descort ← Latin discordia
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discord · noun, verb1

  1. Latin · derived fromdiscordāre
  2. Old French · derived fromdescorder
  3. Middle English · inherited fromdiscorden
  4. Latin · derived fromdiscordia
  5. Old French · derived fromdescort
  6. Middle English · inherited fromdescorde
  7. English todaydiscord

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 discordāre, from discord-, as above.

discord · verb2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Latindis-
  8. Middle Englishdis-
  9. Englishdis-
  10. Englishcord
  11. English todaydiscord

From dis- + cord (“tie, bind”).

Discord · proper noun, noun3

See discord. Jason Citron, developer: “We picked the name because […] it just sounds cool and has to do with talking. […] [It] is easy to say, spell, remember, […] available for ™, and has a website you can get. […] we fell in love with the name”.

Words from the same roots

Latindiscordāre all →

discordant

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