corage

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French corage.

Noun

corage (plural corages)

1. courage
2. 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,

Descendants

• English: courage

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Old French

Alternative forms

• coraige

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *coraticum, a derivative of Latin cor (“heart”). Compare Old Occitan coratge.

Noun

corage oblique singular, m (oblique plural corages, nominative singular corages, nominative plural corage)

1. 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)

Related terms

• cuer

Descendants

• Middle French: corage
  • French: courage
    • → Bulgarian: кураж (kuraž)
    • → Macedonian: кураж (kuraž)
    • → Romanian: curaj
    • → Russian: кураж (kuraž)
• Bourguignon: coraige
• Norman: couothage, kuoradj
• → Aragonese: corache
• → Bulgarian: кураж (kuraž)
• → Galician: coraxe (or from Old Occitan)
• → German: Courage
• → Italian: coraggio (or from Old Occitan)
• → Luxembourgish: Courage
• → Macedonian: кураж (kuraž)
• → Middle English: corage
  • English: courage
• → Mirandese: coraige
• → Portuguese: coragem (or from Old Occitan)
• → Russian: кураж (kuraž)
• → Sicilian: curaggiu (or from Old Occitan)
  • → Maltese: kuraġġ
• → Spanish: coraje (or from Old Occitan)
• → Venetian: coragio (or from Old Occitan)
  • → Greek: κουράγιο (kourágio)