cuer

English

Etymology

cue +‎ -er

Noun

cuer (plural cuers)

1. One who cues.
   • 2010, Carol J. LaSasso, ‎Kelly Lamar Crain, ‎Jacqueline Leybaert, Cued Speech and Cued Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

     Cuers of English and other traditionally spoken languages are concerned solely with conveying the visible consonant-vowel phoneme-equivalents and the accompanying prosodic information.

2. (dance) The caller in a round dance.

Anagrams

• Cure, crue, cure, ecru, écru

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Catalan

Etymology

cua (“tail”) +‎ -er. Compare Spanish colista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈeɾ]

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers)

1. (sports) Team bottom of a league.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• quer

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin chorus.

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers)

1. choir

Descendants

• French: chœur
• (→English: choir)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• coer, quer (both less common)

Etymology

From Latin cor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwer/, [kwør]

Noun

cuer oblique singular, m (oblique plural cuers, nominative singular cuers, nominative plural cuer)

1. (anatomy) heart
2. (figuratively, by extension) heart (loving/romantic feelings)

Related terms

• corage

Descendants

• Middle French: coeur, cueur, cœur
  • French: cœur
    • Antillean Creole: kè
    • Haitian Creole: kè, kœ
    • → Polish: kier
• Bourguignon: côr
• Norman: tchoeu, tchoeur (Guernsey); qùœu (France); kyör (Sark); cœur
• Walloon: cour