cours

English

Etymology 1

Noun

cours (plural courses)

1. Obsolete form of course.

Etymology 2

From French cours in analogy to Japanese クール (kūru), originally singular (as dictated by Anime News Network for example) but later reanalyzed as a plural form.

Noun

cours

1. plural of cour, three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural season.

Anagrams

• Orcus, scour, sucro-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ/

• Audio (France):

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• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
• Rhymes: -uʁ

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cursus.

Noun

cours m (plural cours)

1. stream of water, river

   cours d’eau ― water stream

2. course (of events)

   au cours de la guerre ― over [the course of] the war, during the war

3. 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

• → Japanese: クール (kūru)
  • → English: cours, cour
• → Luxembourgish: Cours
• → Ottoman Turkish: قورس (kurs)
  • Turkish: kur, kurs
• → Vietnamese: cua

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cours

1. plural of cour

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cours

1. inflection of courir:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. 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)

1. A charge; a forceful move.
2. A course or path:
   1. (astronomy) The path of a celestial body.
      • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, 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 […]

   2. (usually nautical) The direction something is headed.
   3. A watercourse (path taken by water)
3. A series of occurrences; a course of time:
   1. An advance through an event or series.
   2. A time when an event is due.
   3. A (often usual) process or sequence.
4. Customary behaviour or nature; custom:
   1. A course of a meal.
   2. Human behaviour; deportment.
5. (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

1. 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cours m (plural cours)

1. (Jersey) currency

Old French

Alternative forms

• cors, curs

Etymology

From Latin cursus.

Noun

cours oblique singular, m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)

1. route, path
2. course, way

Synonyms

• route
• voie

Related terms

• corre
• corsier

Descendants

• Middle French: cours
  • French:

    cours

    • → Japanese: クール (kūru)
      • → English: cours, cour
    • → Luxembourgish: Cours
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قورس (kurs)
      • Turkish: kur, kurs
    • → Vietnamese: cua

    course

    • → Catalan: cursa
    • → Dutch: koers
    • → Romanian: cursă
    • → Swedish: kosa
    • → Vietnamese: cuốc

  • → Middle Dutch: coers
    • Dutch: koers
      • → Indonesian: kurs (“exchange rate”)
• Norman: course
• → Irish: cúrsa
• → Middle English: cours, cors, cource, course, cowrs, cowrse, curs, kours
  • English: course
    • → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)
  • Scots: coorse
  • → Welsh: cwrs