corage
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French corage.
Noun edit
corage (plural corages)
- courage
- 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,
- In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 20-22.
Descendants edit
- English: courage
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corāticum. Attested in the Alexis.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
corage oblique singular, m (oblique plural corages, nominative singular corages, nominative plural corage)
- courage
- c. 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)
- He had a noble wife,
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Inherited forms:
- Borrowings (some likely from Old Occitan coratge instead):
References edit
- ^ Etymology and history of “courage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.