corse

corse

See also: Corse and corsé

English

Etymology

From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹs/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
• Homophones: coarse, course

Noun

corse (plural corses)

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:

     Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.

Anagrams

• Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, creos, ocres, score

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁs/

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Adjective

corse (plural corses)

1. Corsican

Noun

corse m (uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

Verb

corse

1. inflection of corser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ocres, score, scoré

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: cór‧se

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa (“race, trip”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: cór‧se

Verb

corse

1. third-person singular past historic of correre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: cór‧se

Participle

corse f pl

1. feminine plural of corso (“having run”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.se/
• Rhymes: -ɔrse
• Hyphenation: còr‧se

Adjective

corse

1. feminine plural of corso (“Corsican”)

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa (“female Corsican”)

Anagrams

• Creso, Sorce, creso, sorce

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Latin

Adjective

corse

1. vocative singular masculine of corsus