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English[edit]

A courser (Cursorius rufus)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English courser, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from Old French curs (“course”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːsə/
- Homophones: curser, cursor
Noun[edit]
courser (plural coursers)
- A dog used for coursing.
- A person who practises coursing.
- A hunter.
- A stone used in building a course.
- A racehorse or a charger.
- Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.
Derived terms[edit]
- 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[edit]
bird
References[edit]
courser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cursorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Cursorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From course.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
courser
- (colloquial) to purchase
- (colloquial) to chase
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of courser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | courser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | coursant /kuʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | coursé /kuʁ.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(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 historic2 | 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 | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | course /kuʁs/ |
courses /kuʁs/ |
course /kuʁs/ |
coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
coursiez /kuʁ.sje/ |
coursent /kuʁs/ |
imperfect2 | coursasse /kuʁ.sas/ |
coursasses /kuʁ.sas/ |
coursât /kuʁ.sa/ |
coursassions /kuʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
coursassiez /kuʁ.sa.sje/ |
coursassent /kuʁ.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | course /kuʁs/ |
— | coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/ |
coursez /kuʁ.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading[edit]
- “courser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius; equivalent to cours + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
courser (plural coursers)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “cǒursẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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