cursus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.
Noun
[edit]cursus (plural cursuses or (both rare) cursus or cursūs or (nonstandard) cursi)
- (rare) A course; a journey or progression.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 574:
- His cursus from Fréjus to Paris turned into a triumphal march, with whole towns and villages staging ceremonial entrées for him and cheering his passage.
- (archaeology) A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
- A racecourse.
- An academic curriculum.
- A form of daily prayer or service.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cursus m (plural cursussen, diminutive cursusje n)
- an educational course, on its own or as part of an academic or evening school curriculum
- the documentation associated with a course, usually compiled by teachers themselves
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of cours.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cursus m (plural cursus)
- course (learning program)
Further reading
[edit]- “cursus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkʊrs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkursus]
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]cursus m (genitive cursūs); fourth declension
- The act of running; race.
- Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march
- (figuratively) Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage, tendency; career
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cursus | cursūs |
Genitive | cursūs | cursuum |
Dative | cursuī | cursibus |
Accusative | cursum | cursūs |
Ablative | cursū | cursibus |
Vocative | cursus | cursūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: cursu
- Catalan: cors, cós
- Corsican: corsu, cursu
- Friulian: cors
- Italian: corso
- → German: Korso
- Occitan: cors
- Old French: cours, cors, curs
- Portuguese: corso, cosso
- Romanian: curs
- Sicilian: cursu
- Spanish: coso
- Venetian: córso
- → Catalan: curs
- → Crimean Tatar: kurs
- → English: cursus
- → French: cursus
- → Galician: curso
- → German: Kurs
- → Hungarian: kurzus
- → Polish: kurs
- → Portuguese: curso
- → Russian: курс (kurs)
- → Armenian: կուրս (kurs)
- → Spanish: curso
- → Swedish: kurs
- → Finnish: kurssi
Etymology 2
[edit]Perfect passive participle of currō (“run”).
Participle
[edit]cursus (feminine cursa, neuter cursum, adverb cursim); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cursus | cursa | cursum | cursī | cursae | cursa | |
Genitive | cursī | cursae | cursī | cursōrum | cursārum | cursōrum | |
Dative | cursō | cursō | cursīs | ||||
Accusative | cursum | cursam | cursum | cursōs | cursās | cursa | |
Ablative | cursō | cursā | cursō | cursīs | |||
Vocative | curse | cursa | cursum | cursī | cursae | cursa |
References
[edit]- “cursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cursus 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)
- cursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to run till one is out of breath: cursu exanimari (B.G. 2. 23. 1)
- (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
- (ambiguous) to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
- (ambiguous) to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo
- (ambiguous) to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri)
- (ambiguous) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)
- to run till one is out of breath: cursu exanimari (B.G. 2. 23. 1)
- “cursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cursus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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