Meaning of surd in English
Noun
surdDefinitions
1. a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cordsQualitative Adjective
surdEtymology
mid 16th century: from Latin surdus‘deaf, mute’; as a mathematical term, translating Greek (Euclid) alogos‘irrational, speechless’, apparently via Arabic jiḏr aṣamm, literally ‘deaf root’. surd (sense 2 of the adjective) dates from the mid 18th centuryDefinitions
1. of speech soundsAntonyms