cuer

English

Etymology

cue +‎ -er

Noun

cuer (plural cuers)

1. One who cues.
   • 2010, Carol J. LaSasso, Kelly Lamar Crain, Jacqueline Leybaert, Cued Speech and Cued Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children:

     Cuers of English and other traditionally spoken languages are concerned solely with conveying the visible consonant-vowel phoneme-equivalents and the accompanying prosodic information.

2. (dance) The caller in a round dance.

Anagrams

• Cure, crue, cure, ecru, écru

Catalan

Etymology

From cua (“tail”) +‎ -er. Compare Spanish colista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kuˈeɾ]

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers)

1. last (in a series)
2. (sports) Team at the bottom of a league

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers, feminine cuera)

1. a raftsman situated at the rear of the raft
   • 1981, David Griñó i Garriga, Oficis que es perden:

     El rai era conduït per dos raiers; un, al davant, dit el davanter, que era el que conduïa i dirigia servint-se d'una alta verga i, al darrera, hi anava el cuer, a l'últim tram, que ajudava a maniobrar el davanter.

     The raft was steered by two raftsmen; one, at the front, called the davanter, who was the one who steered and guided it by means of a long pole and, at the rear, there came the cuer, on the last section, who helped the davanter to manoeuvre.

Hypernyms

• raier

Coordinate terms

• davanter

Further reading

• “cuer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• quer

Etymology

From Latin chorus.

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers)

1. choir

Descendants

• French: chœur
• (→English: choir)

Old French

Alternative forms

• coer, quer (both less common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɛɾ/, [ˈkwœɾ]

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

Noun

cuer oblique singular, m (oblique plural cuers, nominative singular cuers, nominative plural cuer)

1. (anatomy) heart
2. (figuratively, by extension) heart (loving/romantic feelings)

Related terms

• corage

Descendants

• Bourguignon: côr
• Middle French: coeur, cueur, cœur
  • French: cœur
    • Antillean Creole: kè
    • Haitian Creole: kè, kœ
    • → Polish: kier
• Norman: tchoeu, tchoeur; qùœu; kyör; cœur
• Walloon: cour
• → Middle English: core (uncertain; see there for more)

Etymology 2

From Latin chorus n

Noun

cuer oblique singular, m (oblique plural cuers, nominative singular cuers, nominative plural cuer)

1. choir

Descendants

• French: chœur
• Middle English: quere
  • English: choir

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• cor

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweɾ/

Noun

cuer m (usually uncountable)

1. heart

   Synonym: coraçon

   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 58r:

     Fizo ioiade taiamiento con el reẏ e con el pueblo que ſiruieſſen al ćador de buen cuer.

     Jehoiada made a covenant with the king and with the people, that they should serve the Creator with a good heart.

Related terms

• coraçon

Descendants

• Spanish: cor