parcours
See also: Parcours
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French parcours.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑrˈkuːr/, /pɑrˈkuːrs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: par‧cours
- Rhymes: -uːr, -uːrs
Noun
parcours n (plural parcoursen, diminutive parcoursje n)
- route of a race
- (figuratively) steps needed to achieve an objective
Usage notes
The final ⟨s⟩ can be silent in the main form as it is in French, but in the plural and diminutive forms it is sounded.
Hypernyms
- traject
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin percursus, nominalised past participle of percurrere. Parcourir is a much later borrowing from percurrere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.kuʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uʁ
Noun
parcours m (plural parcours)
- route, course
- career
- (historical) a traditional roaming or grazing right
- (golf) round; course
Synonyms
- trajet
Derived terms
- à mi-parcours
- accident de parcours
- incident de parcours
- parcours de santé
- parcours du combattant
- parkour
Related terms
- parcourir
Descendants
- → Polish: parkur
- → Turkish: parkur
Verb
parcours
- inflection of parcourir:
- first/second-person present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “parcours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- procuras