cours
English
Noun
cours (plural courses)
- Obsolete form of course.
Anagrams
- Orcus, scour, sucro-
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuʁ/
Audio (France) (file) - Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
- Rhymes: -uʁ
Etymology 1
From Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of cursus.
Noun
cours m (plural cours)
- stream of water, river
- cours d'eau ― water stream
- course (of events)
- au cours de la guerre ― over [the course of] the war, during the war
- teaching, lesson, lecture, class
Derived terms
- au cours de
- avoir cours
- chargé de cours
- cours en ligne ouvert et massif
- cours magistral
- donner libre cours
- en cours
- en cours de
- en cours de route
- suivre son cours
Related terms
- course
- coursier
- courir
- cursif
- discours
- parcours
- recours
- secours
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: قورس (kurs)
- Turkish: kurs
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
cours
- plural of cour
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cours
- inflection of courir:
- first/second-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cors, cource, course, cowrs, cowrse, curs, kours
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French cours, curs, from Latin cursus; compare Middle Dutch coers.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuːrs/, /kurs/
Noun
cours (plural courses)
- A charge; a forceful move.
- A course or path:
- (astronomy) The path of a celestial body.
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 2, recto, lines 7-9:
- […] and the yonge sonne / Hath in the ram his half cours yronne / And smale foweles maken melodye […]
- […] and the young Sun / has made half its journey in Aries, / while small birds make melodies […]
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- (usually nautical) The direction something is headed.
- A watercourse (path taken by water)
- (astronomy) The path of a celestial body.
- A series of occurrences; a course of time:
- An advance through an event or series.
- A time when an event is due.
- A (often usual) process or sequence.
- Customary behaviour or nature; custom:
- A course of a meal.
- Human behaviour; deportment.
- (architecture) A course of stones.
Related terms
- courser
- coursly
Descendants
- English: course
- → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)
- Scots: coorse
- → Welsh: cwrs
References
- “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adjective
cours
- Ordinary, coarse; of inferior grade or quality.
Descendants
- English: coarse
- Scots: coorse
References
- “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
cours m (plural cours)
- (Jersey) currency
Old French
Alternative forms
- cors, curs
Etymology
From Latin cursus.
Noun
cours m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)
- route, path
- course, way
Synonyms
- route
- voie
Related terms
- corre
- corsier
Descendants
- French: cours
- → Middle English: cours, cors, cource, course, cowrs, cowrse, curs, kours
- English: course
- → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)
- Scots: coorse
- → Welsh: cwrs
- English: course