parcours

Borrowed from French parcours.

• IPA^(key): /pɑrˈkur/, /pɑrˈkurs/, [-uː-]

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• Hyphenation: par‧cours
• Rhymes: -ur, -urs

parcours n (plural parcoursen, diminutive parcoursje n)

1. route of a race
2. (figurative) steps needed to achieve an objective

The final ⟨s⟩ can be silent in the main form as it is in French, but in the plural and diminutive forms it is sounded.

• traject

From Vulgar Latin percursus, nominalised past participle of percurrere. Parcourir is a much later borrowing from percurrere.

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.kuʁ/

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• Rhymes: -uʁ

parcours m (plural parcours)

1. route, course
2. career
3. (historical) a traditional roaming or grazing right
4. (golf) round; course

• trajet

• parcourir

• → Polish: parkur
• → Turkish: parkur

parcours

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

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

• procuras