cursor

See also: Cursor

English

Alternative forms

• cursour (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜ˞ sə˞]
• IPA^(key): /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜː sə]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

Noun

cursor (plural cursors)

1. a part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
2. (graphical user interface) a moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
3. (graphical user interface) an indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place

   Synonym: the caret

4. (databases) a reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it
5. (programming) a design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly

   Synonym: the iterator pattern

Related terms

• courier
• current
• cursive
• cursory
• recursive

 

Translations

part of scientific instruments that indicates position

• Arabic: مُؤَشِّر m (muʔaššir)
• Bulgarian: стре́лка (bg) f (strélka), ^{(please verify)} показа́лец (bg) m (pokazálec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遊標／游标 (zh) (yóubiāo) or 游標／游标 (zh) (yóubiāo), 游标 (zh) (yóubiāo), 光標／光标 (zh) (guāngbiāo), 光标 (zh) (guāngbiāo)

• Finnish: osoitin (fi)
• French: curseur (fr) m
• Galician: cursor m
• German: Cursor (de) m, Läufer (de) m
• Japanese: カーソル (kāsoru)
• Korean: 커서 (keoseo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: žymeklis
• Maori: pehu
• Norman: curseu m
• Norwegian: merkør
• Portuguese: cursor (pt) m
• Romanian: cursor (ro) n
• Russian: курсо́р (ru) m (kursór), стре́лка (ru) f (strélka), указа́тель (ru) m (ukazátelʹ), движо́к (ru) m (dvižók) (on the scale)
• Spanish: cursor m
• Welsh: cyrchydd m, rhedell f

GUI: moving icon representing the position of a pointing device

• Armenian: նշորդ (nšord)
• Bulgarian: курсор (bg) m (kursor)
• Catalan: cursor (ca) m
• Dutch: muisaanwijzer m, cursor (nl) m
• Finnish: osoitin (fi)
• French: curseur (fr) m
• German: Mauszeiger (de) m
• Hungarian: kurzor
• Icelandic: bendill (is) m, músarbendill m (mouse cursor)
• Maori: pehu
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: kursor (pl) m
• Portuguese: cursor (pt) m
• Russian: курсо́р (ru) m (kursór)
• Slovene: kazalnik m, kurzor m
• Spanish: cursor m
• Swedish: muspekare (sv) c, pekare (sv) c
• Turkish: imleç (tr)
• Vietnamese: con trỏ
• Welsh: cyrchwr m

GUI: indicator of where the next insertation or other edit will take place

• Armenian: նշորդ (nšord)
• Finnish: kohdistin (fi), kursori (fi)
• German: Schreibmarke f
• Greek: δρομέας (el) m (droméas)
• Icelandic: bendill (is) m, (mouse cursor) músarbendill m
• Italian: puntatore m, cursore (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: markør m

  Nynorsk: markør m

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: kursor (pl) m
• Romanian: cursor (ro) n
• Russian: курсо́р (ru) m (kursór), каре́тка (ru) f (karétka)
• Slovene: kurzor m
• Swedish: markör (sv) c, insättningspunkt c
• Vietnamese: con nháy
• Welsh: cyrchwr m

database: reference to a row

• Icelandic: bendir m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: курсо́р (ru) m (kursór)

programming: iterator pattern

• Finnish: kohdistin (fi), iteraattori
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: курсо́р (ru) m (kursór)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} مُؤَشِّر m (muʔaššir)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} bendill (is) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} cursore (it) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} cursor
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} imleç (tr)

Verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
   • 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)

     The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

See also

• electronic display
• GUI
• pointer

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From currō (“run”) +‎ -sor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkʊrs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkursor]

Noun

cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension

1. a runner, racer
2. a courier, messenger, post
3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cursor	cursōrēs
Genitive	cursōris	cursōrum
Dative	cursōrī	cursōribus
Accusative	cursōrem	cursōrēs
Ablative	cursōre	cursōribus
Vocative	cursor	cursōrēs

Related terms

• curriculum
• currus
• currāx
• currīlis
• currō
• currūlis
• cursilitās
• cursim
• cursitātiō
• cursitō
• cursiō
• cursus
• cursuālis
• cursātiō
• cursō
• cursōrius
• cursūra

 

Descendants

• English: cursor
• French: curseur
• Italian: cursore
• Norman: curseu (Jersey)
• Portuguese: cursor
• Romanian: cursor
• Spanish: cursor

References

• “cursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cursor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cursor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, cursōrem.

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

Related terms

• correr
• cursivo
• curso

 

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, cursōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈsoɾ/ [kuɾˈsoɾ]

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. (computing) cursor

   Synonym: puntero

Related terms

• correr
• cursivo
• curso