cours

cours (plural courses)

1. Obsolete form of course.

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.

cours

1. three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural season.

• Orcus, scour, sucro-

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ/

• Audio (France):

  (file)

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

Inherited from Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cursus. Compare Italian corso.

cours m (plural cours)

1. stream of water, river

   cours d'eau ― water stream

2. course (of events)

   au cours de la guerre ― over [the course of] the war, during the war

3. teaching, lesson, lecture, class
4. avenue (wide, usually tree-lined street)

   le Cours Mirabeau ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cours

1. plural of cour

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cours

1. inflection of courir:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• cors, cource, course, cowrs, cowrse, curs, kours

Borrowed from Old French cours, curs, from Latin cursus; compare Middle Dutch coers.

• IPA^(key): /kuːrs/, /kurs/

cours (plural courses)

1. A charge; a forceful move.
2. A course or path:
   1. (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 […]

   2. (usually nautical) The direction something is headed.
   3. A watercourse (path taken by water)
3. A series of occurrences; a course of time:
   1. An advance through an event or series.
   2. A time when an event is due.
   3. A (often usual) process or sequence.
4. Customary behaviour or nature; custom:
   1. A course of a meal.
   2. Human behaviour; deportment.
5. (architecture) A course of stones.

• courser
• coursly

• English: course
  • → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)
• Scots: coorse
• → Welsh: cwrs

• “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

cours

1. Ordinary, coarse; of inferior grade or quality.

• English: coarse
• Scots: coorse

• “cǒurs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cours m (plural cours)

1. (Jersey) currency

• cors, curs

From Latin cursus.

cours oblique singular, m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)

1. route, path
2. course, way

• route
• voie

• corre
• corsier