cuard

Old French

Alternative forms

• couart, coard, coart, cuart, cöart, couuard, couward, coward, cowarde, cowart, kuard, kuart, chuard

Etymology

From coue (“tail”) +‎ -ard.

Noun

cuard oblique singular, m (oblique plural cuarz or cuartz, nominative singular cuarz or cuartz, nominative plural cuard)

1. a coward

Declension

  Declension of cuard  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Subject	cuards	cuarde
	Oblique	cuard	cuarde
Plural	Subject	cuard	cuardes
	Oblique	cuards	cuardes

Descendants

• Middle French: couard
  • French: couard
  • → Middle English: coward
    • English: coward
    • Scots: cowart, coward
• → Italian: codardo
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: covardo
  • Galician: covarde
  • Portuguese: cobarde
• → Spanish: cobarde