corage
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French corage.
Noun
corage (plural corages)
- courage
- heart
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 20-22.
- In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
- Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
- To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,
- In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay
- Ready to go on pilgrimage and start
- To Canterbury, full devout at heart,
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 20-22.
Descendants
- English: courage
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *coraticum, a derivative of Latin cor (“heart”). Compare Old Occitan coratge.
Pronunciation
Noun
corage oblique singular, m (oblique plural corages, nominative singular corages, nominative plural corage)
- courage
- circa 1200, author unknown, Des Tresces, page 1:
- Il ot une feme de grant paraige,
Qui avoit mit tot son coraige.- He had a noble wife,
Who has done all she could. (literally, had put all her courage)
- He had a noble wife,
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