cours

English

Noun

cours (plural courses)

1. Obsolete form of course.

Anagrams

• Orcus, scour

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ/

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• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
• Rhymes: -uʁ

Etymology 1

From Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of cursus.

Noun

cours m (plural cours)

1. stream of water, river

   cours d'eau - water stream

2. course (of events)

   au cours de la guerre - over [the course of] the war, during the war

3. teaching, lesson, lecture, class

Derived terms

• au cours de
• en cours

Related terms

• course
• coursier
• courir
• cursif

• discourse
• recours
• secours

Etymology 2

Verb

cours

1. first-person singular present indicative of courir
2. second-person singular present indicative of courir
3. second-person singular imperative of courir

External links

• “cours” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old French cours, from Latin cursus.

Noun

cours (plural courses)

1. course
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 8-9.

     Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

     And smale foweles maken melodye,

Descendants

• Scots: coorse
• English: course

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Norman

Noun

cours m (plural cours)

1. (Jersey) currency

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin cursus.

Noun

cours m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)

1. route; course; way

Related terms

• courre

Descendants

• French: cours
• → Middle English: cours
  • Scots: coorse
  • English: course