corage

corage

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French corage.

Noun

corage (plural corages)

1. courage
2. heart
   • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 20-22.

     In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay

     Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage

     To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,

     In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay

     Ready to go on pilgrimage and start

     To Canterbury, full devout at heart,

Descendants

• English: courage

---

Old French

Alternative forms

• coraige

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *coraticum, a derivative of Latin cor (“heart”). Compare Old Occitan coratge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈra.d͡ʒə/

Noun

corage m (oblique plural corages, nominative singular corages, nominative plural corage)

1. courage
   • circa 1200, author unknown, Des Tresces, page 1:

     Il ot une feme de grant paraige,
     Qui avoit mit tot son coraige.

     He had a noble wife,
     Who has done all she could. (literally, had put all her courage)

Related terms

• cuer

Descendants

• Inherited forms:
  • Bourguignon: coraige
  • Middle French: corage
    • French: courage
      • → Bulgarian: кураж (kuraž)
      • → Macedonian: кураж (kuraž)
      • → Romanian: curaj
      • → Russian: кураж (kuraž)
    • → Alemannic German: Karäschi
    • → German: Courage
    • → Luxembourgish: Courage
  • Norman: couothage, kuoradj
  • Walloon: coraedje
• Borrowings (some likely from Old Occitan coratge instead):
  • → Aragonese: corache
  • → Galician: coraxe
  • → Italian: coraggio
  • → Middle English: corage
    • English: courage
  • → Mirandese: coraige
  • → Portuguese: coragem
  • → Sicilian: curaggiu
    • → Maltese: kuraġġ
  • → Spanish: coraje
  • → Venetian: coragio
    • → Friulian: coraç
    • → Greek: κουράγιο (kourágio)