cours
English
Noun
cours (plural courses)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuʁ/
Audio (France): (file) - 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)
- 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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Etymology 2
Verb
cours
- first-person singular present indicative of courir
- second-person singular present indicative of courir
- second-person singular imperative of courir
External links
- “cours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French cours, from Latin cursus.
Noun
cours (plural courses)
- 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,
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 8-9.
Descendants
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
cours m (plural cours)
Old French
Etymology
Noun
cours oblique singular, m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)
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Descendants
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