cursor
See also: Cursor
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜ˞sə˞]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɜːsə/, [ˈkʰɜːsə]
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
Noun edit
cursor (plural cursors)
- A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
- 1679, Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, Joseph Moxon, The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more, page 150:
- Besides, the Reader must know, if a Brazen graduated Semi-Circle were hung on the Poles here, with an erected moveable Pin, or Cursor on it, there would be no need of the Holes […] in each Parallel of the Globe, for the true Composing of it […]
- (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
- (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
- (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
- Synonym: iterator pattern
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Translations edit
part of scientific instruments that indicates position
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GUI: moving icon representing the position of a pointing device
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computing: indicator of where the next insertation or other edit will take place
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database: reference to a row
programming: iterator pattern
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Verb edit
cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
- 1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22:
- The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkʊrs̠ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkursor]
Noun edit
cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension
- a runner, racer
- a courier, messenger, post
- a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | cursor | cursōrēs |
Genitive | cursōris | cursōrum |
Dative | cursōrī | cursōribus |
Accusative | cursōrem | cursōrēs |
Ablative | cursōre | cursōribus |
Vocative | cursor | cursōrēs |
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References edit
- “cursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cursor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cursor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin cursōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cursor m (plural cursores)
- cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
- (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cursor n (plural cursoare)
Declension edit
Declension of cursor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cursor | cursorul | (niște) cursoare | cursoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) cursor | cursorului | (unor) cursoare | cursoarelor |
vocative | cursorule | cursoarelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
cursor m (plural cursores)
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Further reading edit
- “cursor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014