coure

coure (third-person singular simple present coures, present participle couring, simple past and past participle coured)

1. Obsolete form of cower.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.

• Cuero

From Late Latin cuprum (compare Spanish cobre), from Latin cyprium (aes) (compare Occitan coire, French cuivre), from Ancient Greek Κῠ́προς (Kŭ́pros).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkow.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔw.ɾe]

coure m (uncountable)

1. copper

• courer

Inherited from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Compare Occitan còire.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔw.ɾe]

coure (first-person singular present coc, first-person singular preterite coguí, past participle cuit); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/ (in the meaning "to cook")
coure (first-person singular present coc, first-person singular preterite coguí, past participle cogut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/ (in the meaning "to sting")

1. to cook

   Synonym: cuinar

2. to sting

meaning "to cook"

meaning "to sting"

• recoure

• “coure”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “coure”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “coure” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coure” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ/

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• Homophones: cour, courent, coures, courre, cours, court, courts

coure

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of courir

• coeur, cœur, écrou

coure

1. alternative form of corre

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

From Proto-Cariban *kure (“good”). Compare Kari'na kure, Apalaí kure, Trió kure, Waiwai kirwan.

coure

1. being good, well

• de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643