cour

Back-formation from cours from Japanese クール (kūru), from French cours. Attestable in English among the anime community from at least 2007. Anime News Network's Lexicon Encyclopedia dictates the original cours to be unchanged in singular form,^[1] though that has been reanalyzed as a plural form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

cour (plural cours)

1. A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
2. A portion of a television program aired over the course of one such period, usually comprising around 10 to 14 weekly episodes.

• air de cour, chant de cour, (etymologically unrelated)

• What is a cour and a season in anime?

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sou̯r]

cour

1. genitive plural of coura

Inherited from Old French cort, inherited from Latin cortem, shortening of cohors. Doublet of cohorte and court (“tennis court”).

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ/

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• Homophones: coure, courent, coures, courre, cours, court, courts
• Rhymes: -uʁ

cour f (plural cours)

1. courtyard,
2. (Quebec) backyard
3. court (of law)
4. (royal) court
5. following (of a celebrity etc.)
6. courtship

• courtisan
• courtiser
• courtois

• → Norwegian Bokmål: kur
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kur

• “cour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French cort, from Latin cortem, accusative of cors, shortening of cohors.

cour f (plural cours)

1. (Jersey) court

From Old French cuer, from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

• IPA^(key): /kuːʀ/
• Homophone: court

cour m (plural cours)

1. (anatomy) heart