# cordate
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɔːdeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Homophones: caudate, chordate
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɔːɹdeɪt/
** Homophone: chordate

### Etymology 1

From Latin cor(d) (“heart”) +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

#### Adjective

cordate (comparative more cordate, superlative most cordate)
* (botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.
    Synonym: cordiform

##### Derived terms

* cordately
* hemicordate
* obcordate
* semicordate
* subcordate

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From the substantivation of the above adjective, alternatively straight from Latin cor(d) (“heart”) +‎ -ate (noun-forming suffix).

#### Noun

cordate (plural cordates)
* (philosophy) Any animal with a heart.
** 1970, Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosophy of Logic, pages 8–9:If, for instance, the context:(1) Necessarily all cordates are cordatesis available in the language, then the desired contrast seems to work out. […] At the same time, as desired, ‘cordate’ remains interchangeable with ‘creature with a heart’, at least in the example (1); for necessarily all cordates, by definition, have hearts.
** 2002, Timothy McCarthy, Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, page 124:The organisms in any sample of tigers will almost always happen to exemplify genetic properties more specific than the property shared by exactly the tigers, as well as a number of more inclusive ones such as properties common to all mammals or to all cordates.
** 2008, Peter Loptson, Freedom, Nature, and World, page 78:Sciences of cordates — creatures with hearts — are, for example, less general or comprehensive than sciences of living things, and the latter are less comprehensive and general than sciences of moving things.
** 2012, K. Mulligan, Language, Truth and Ontology, page 16:It is the coextension problem, the problem of the renates and the cordates, the creatures with kidneys and the creatures with hearts.
** 2021, Ken Akiba, “Vaguenss from the philosophical point of view”, in Apostolos Syropoulos, Basil K. Papadopoulos, editors, Vagueness in the Exact Sciences, page 6:However, the property of being a cordate and the property of being a renate are different properties; the former has something to do with hearts and the latter has something to do with kidneys.
* (archaeology) A heart-shaped hand axe.
** 1977, D. K. Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya, Palaeolithic Europe, page 46:The upper loam (E) has been reported to have yielded several white-patinated implements, including a large number of pointed handaxes, cordates, ovates and cleavers.
** 1985, John Wymer, The Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia, page 107:Of the 58 ovates, cordates and cleavers examined, 21 have a tranchet sharpened edge, and 14 are twisted.
** 2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic, page 122:Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.
* Misspelling of chordate.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordate.

##### Usage notes

The sense "any animal with a heart" is chiefly confined to discussion of an example given by Willard Van Orman Quine in his essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". Compare renate.

### Anagrams

* Art Deco, red coat, redcoat

## Italian
### Noun

cordate f
* plural of cordata

### Anagrams

* cardeto, cedrato, detorca

## Latin
### Etymology 1
#### Adverb

cordātē (not comparable)
* prudently, sagaciously, wisely

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

cordāte
* vocative masculine singular of cordātus

### References

* “cordate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* cordate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.