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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cours (plural courses)
- Obsolete form of course.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /kuʁ/
Audio (France) (file) - Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
- Rhymes: -uʁ
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of cursus.
Noun[edit]
cours m (plural cours)
- stream of water, river
- cours d'eau - water stream
- course (of events)
- au cours de la guerre - over [the course of] the war, during the war
- teaching, lesson, lecture, class
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Descendants[edit]
- → Turkish: kurs
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
cours
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cours
- inflection of courir:
Further reading[edit]
- “cours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French cours, curs, from Latin cursus; compare Middle Dutch coers.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cours (plural courses)
- A charge; a forceful move.
- A course or path:
- (astronomy) The path of a celestial body.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in [The Canterbury Tales] (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 2, recto, lines 7-9:
- […] and the yonge sonne / Hath in the ram his half cours yronne / And smale foweles maken melodye […]
- […] and the young Sun / has made half its journey in Aries, / while small birds make melodies […]
- (usually nautical) The direction something is headed.
- A watercourse (path taken by water)
- (astronomy) The path of a celestial body.
- A series of occurrences; a course of time:
- Customary behaviour or nature; custom:
- A course of a meal.
- Human behaviour; deportment.
- (architecture) A course of stones.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adjective[edit]
cours
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
cours m (plural cours)
Old French[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cours m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)
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