cours
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
cours (plural courses)
Etymology 2 edit
From French cours in analogy to Japanese クール (kūru), originally singular (as dictated by Anime News Network for example[1]) but later reanalyzed as a plural form.
Noun edit
cours
- plural of cour, three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural season.
References edit
- ^ "cour". Lexicon. Anime News Network.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kuʁ/
Audio (France) (file) - Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
- Rhymes: -uʁ
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cursus.
Noun edit
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 edit
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Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
cours
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
cours
- inflection of courir:
Further reading edit
- “cours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French cours, curs, from Latin cursus; compare Middle Dutch coers.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 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 […]
- (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:
- Customary behaviour or nature; custom:
- A course of a meal.
- Human behaviour; deportment.
- (architecture) A course of stones.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adjective edit
cours
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
cours m (plural cours)
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cours oblique singular, m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)