courser

English

A courser (Cursorius rufus)

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from Old French curs (“course”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːsɜ/
• Homophones: curser, cursor

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

1. A dog used for coursing.
2. A person who practises coursing.
3. A hunter.
4. A stone used in building a course.
5. A racehorse or a charger.
6. Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.

Derived terms

• bronze-winged courser, Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
• Burchell's courser, Cursorius rufus
• cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor
• double-banded courser, Rhinoptilus africanus
• Indian courser, Cursorius coromandelicus
• Jerdon's courser, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
• Somali courser, Cursorius somalensis
• Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii
• three-banded courser, Rhinoptilus cinctus

Translations

bird

• Spanish: corredor (es) m

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Correus, correus, scourer, sourcer

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French

Etymology

From course.

Verb

courser

1. (colloquial) to purchase

Conjugation

  Conjugation of courser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		courser			avoir coursé
gerund		en coursant			en ayant coursé
present participle		coursant /kuʁ.sɑ̃/
past participle		coursé /kuʁ.se/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	course /kuʁs/	courses /kuʁs/	course /kuʁs/	coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/	coursez /kuʁ.se/	coursent /kuʁs/
	imperfect	coursais /kuʁ.sɛ/	coursais /kuʁ.sɛ/	coursait /kuʁ.sɛ/	coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/	coursiez /kuʁ.sje/	coursaient /kuʁ.sɛ/
	past historic1	coursai /kuʁ.se/	coursas /kuʁ.sa/	coursa /kuʁ.sa/	coursâmes /kuʁ.sam/	coursâtes /kuʁ.sat/	coursèrent /kuʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	courserai /kuʁ.sə.ʁe/	courseras /kuʁ.sə.ʁa/	coursera /kuʁ.sə.ʁa/	courserons /kuʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	courserez /kuʁ.sə.ʁe/	courseront /kuʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	courserais /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	courserais /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	courserait /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	courserions /kuʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	courseriez /kuʁ.sə.ʁje/	courseraient /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	course /kuʁs/	courses /kuʁs/	course /kuʁs/	coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/	coursiez /kuʁ.sje/	coursent /kuʁs/
	imperfect1	coursasse /kuʁ.sas/	coursasses /kuʁ.sas/	coursât /kuʁ.sa/	coursassions /kuʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	coursassiez /kuʁ.sa.sje/	coursassent /kuʁ.sas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	course /kuʁs/	—	coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/	coursez /kuʁ.se/	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• recours

Further reading

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