# cursus
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.

### Noun

cursus (plural cursuses or (both rare) cursus or cursūs or (nonstandard) cursi)
* (rare) A course; a journey or progression.
** 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 574:His cursus from Fréjus to Paris turned into a triumphal march, with whole towns and villages staging ceremonial entrées for him and cheering his passage.
* (archaeology) A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
* A racecourse.
* An academic curriculum.
* A form of daily prayer or service.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʏr.zʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cur‧sus

### Noun

cursus m (plural cursussen, diminutive cursusje n)
* an educational course, on its own or as part of an academic or evening school curriculum
* the documentation associated with a course, usually compiled by teachers themselves

#### Related terms

* cursist

## French
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cursus m. Doublet of cours m and course f.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kyʁ.sys/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cursus m (plural cursus)
* course (learning program)

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkʊrs̠ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkursus]

### Etymology 1

currō +‎ -sus (action noun)

#### Noun

cursus m (genitive cursūs); fourth declension
* The act of running; race.
* Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.534:Hic cursus fuitThis was [our] voyage (The first of many incomplete lines in the Aeneid.)
* (figuratively) Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage, tendency; career

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* cursārius
* cursuālis

##### Related terms

* currāx
* curriculum
* currīlis
* currō
* currūlis
* currus
* cursātiō
* cursilitās
* cursim
* cursiō
* cursitātiō
* cursitō
* cursō
* cursor
* cursōrius
* cursūra

##### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: cursu
* Balkano-Romance:
** Romanian: curs
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: corsu, cursu
** Italian: corso
*** → German: Korso
** Sicilian: cursu
** Venetan: córso
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: cors
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: cors, cós
** Occitan: cors
** Old French: cours, cors, curs (see there for further descendants)
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: cursu
** Portuguese: corso, cosso
** Spanish: coso
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: curs
** → Crimean Tatar: kurs
** → English: cursus
** → French: cursus
** → Galician: curso
** → German: Kurs
*** → Serbo-Croatian: kȕrs / ку̏рс
** → Hungarian: kurzus
** → Polish: kurs
** → Portuguese: curso
** → Russian: курс (kurs)
*** → Armenian: կուրս (kurs)
** → Spanish: curso
** → Swedish: kurs
*** → Finnish: kurssi

### Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of currō (“run”).

#### Participle

cursus (feminine cursa, neuter cursum, adverb cursim); first/second-declension participle
* (of a race, journey) run, having been run
* travelled through, traversed, ran, having been traversed

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### References

* “cursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* cursus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* cursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to run till one is out of breath: cursu exanimari (B.G. 2. 23. 1) (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo (ambiguous) to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere (ambiguous) to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo (ambiguous) to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri) (ambiguous) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)
* “cursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “cursus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin