concordia

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English

Etymology

From Latin concordia.

Noun

concordia (countable and uncountable, plural concordias or concordia)

  1. (geology, geochronology) A set of plotted points, appearing as a curve on a concordia diagram or isochron diagram, representing sample data from rock of the same age; the condition of being a member of said set (or on said curve).
    • 1979, Contributions to Geology, Volumes 17-19; Volume 3, University of Wyoming, page 174:
      Points above concordia indicate uranium loss and those below indicate uranium gain.
    • 1994 , H.-G. Attendorn, R. Bowen, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, Chapman & Hall, page 131,
      Such lower intersections of resultant discordias with concordias are not significant in terms of geological time, merely changes which took place in the ratios or lead isotope ratios through the factors alluded to above.
    • 2005, Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, Isotopes: Principles and Applications, 3rd edition, Wiley, page 521:
      The addition of to a carbonate sample on concordia causes the point to move off concordia in the direction of the origin. [] The patterns that develop in the concordia diagrams are similar to the responses of concordias presented in Section 10.5a.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin concordia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈkɔr.dja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrdja
  • Hyphenation: con‧còr‧dia

Noun

concordia f (plural concordie)

  1. concord
    Antonym: sconcordia

Further reading

  • concordia in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • concordia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • concordia in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • concordia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • concordia in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • concordia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From concors (agreeing, of one mind).

Pronunciation

Noun

concordia f (genitive concordiae); first declension

  1. an agreement together, union, harmony, concord
    Synonyms: cōnsēnsiō, cōnsēnsus, cōnspīrātiō, congruentia
    Antonyms: discordia, dissidentia, dissēnsiō
  2. (poetic) an intimate friend
    Synonyms: necessārius, sodālis, amīcus

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative concordia concordiae
genitive concordiae concordiārum
dative concordiae concordiīs
accusative concordiam concordiās
ablative concordiā concordiīs
vocative concordia concordiae

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References

  • concordia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • concordia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • concordia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • concordia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • concordia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • concordia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • concordia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • concordia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concordia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈkoɾdja/
  • Rhymes: -oɾdja
  • Syllabification: con‧cor‧dia

Noun

concordia f (plural concordias)

  1. concord, harmony, unity, union
  2. ring consisting of two interlaced parts

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