courser

English

A courser (Cursorius rufus)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːsə/
• 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

• Czech: běhulík

• Russian: бегуно́к (ru) m (begunók), бегунки́ (ru) m pl (begunkí)
• Spanish: corredor (es) m

References

• courser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cursorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cursorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Correus, correus, scourer, sourcer

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French

Etymology

From course.

Pronunciation

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Verb

courser

1. (colloquial) to purchase
2. (colloquial) to chase

Conjugation

Conjugation of courser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	courser
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “courser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• recours

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• corser, corsour, courseer, coursier, coursour, cowcer, cowrsure, cowser, cowsere, cursere, cursour

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius; equivalent to cours +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːrˈseːr/, /ˈkuːrsər/

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

1. A charger (large horse for battle)
2. (by extension) Any stallion; any horse.

Descendants

• English: courser
• Scots: couser, cusser, cuisser

References

• “cǒursẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.