# discord
## English
### Pronunciation
#### Noun

* (General American) IPA: /ˈdɪskɔɹd/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɪskɔːd/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Verb

* (General American) IPA: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪsˈkɔːd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)
* Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 6:19:A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren.
** 1775 March 22, Edmund Burke, “Speech on Moving Resolutions for Conciliation with America”, in [Walker King and French Laurence], editors, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume III, London: […] [T. Gillet] for F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], published 1803, →OCLC, page 31:The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; […]
* Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
* Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
** 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 700, page 173:[…] For a Diſcord it ſelfe is but a Harſhneſſe of Diuers Sounds Meeting.
* (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

##### Derived terms

* apple of discord
* discordful
* Discordian
* discordous

##### Related terms

* discordant
* Discordianism

##### Translations
#### Verb

discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)
* (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
** 1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 227, page 62:[…] Sometimes the one Iarring and diſcording with the other, and making a Confuſion; […]

### Etymology 2

From dis- +‎ cord (“tie, bind”).

#### Verb

discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)
* (transitive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French discord.

### Pronunciation

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### Adjective

discord m or n (feminine singular discordă, masculine plural discorzi, feminine and neuter plural discorde)
* discordant

#### Declension
### Noun

discord f (plural discorzi)
* disagreement

### References

* discord in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN