corsa

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: corsas, corsât

Verb

corsa

1. third-person singular past historic of corser

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Italian

Etymology 1

From the feminine of corso. Compare English course, French course.

Noun

corsa f (plural corse)

1. (athletics) run, running
2. (sports) race, racing
3. trip, journey
4. movement (of a pendulum)
5. stroke (of a piston)

Related terms

• correre
• corridore

See also

• podismo
• podista

Etymology 2

See corso

Noun

corsa f (plural corse)

1. Corsican (a woman from Corsica)

Adjective

corsa f

1. feminine singular of corso

Anagrams

• Carso, sacro, scora

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρση (kórsē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.sa/, [ˈkɔr.sa]

Noun

corsa f (genitive corsae); first declension

1. (architecture) The outer strip in the molding about a door, a girder

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	corsa	corsae
genitive	corsae	corsārum
dative	corsae	corsīs
accusative	corsam	corsās
ablative	corsā	corsīs
vocative	corsa	corsae

References

• corsae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “corsa”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “corsa” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)