# cours
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

cours (plural courses)
* Obsolete form of course.

### Etymology 2

From French cours in analogy to Japanese クール (kūru), originally singular (as dictated by Anime News Network for example) but later reanalyzed as a plural form.

#### Noun

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

### References

* ↑ "cours". Lexicon. Anime News Network.

### Anagrams

* Orcus, scour, sucro-

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuʁ/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
* Rhymes: -uʁ

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

cours m (plural cours)
* stream of water, river
    cours d’eau ― water stream
* course (of events)
    au cours de la guerre ― over [the course of] the war, during the war
* teaching, lesson, lecture, class

##### Derived terms

* au cours de
* avoir cours
* chargé de cours
* cours en ligne ouvert et massif
* cours magistral
* donner libre cours
* en cours
* en cours de
* en cours de route
* suivre son cours

##### Related terms

* courir
* course
* coursier
* cursif
* discours
* parcours
* recours
* secours

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: クール (kūru)
** → English: cours, cour
* → Luxembourgish: Cours
* → Ottoman Turkish: قورس (kurs)
** Turkish: kur, kurs
* → Vietnamese: cua

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

cours
* plural of cour

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cours
* inflection of courir:
** first/second-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːrs/, /kurs/

### Noun

cours (plural courses)
* A charge; a forceful move.
* A course or path:
** (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 […]
** (usually nautical) The direction something is headed.
** A watercourse (path taken by water)
* A series of occurrences; a course of time:
** An advance through an event or series.
** A time when an event is due.
** A (often usual) process or sequence.
* Customary behaviour or nature; custom:
** A course of a meal.
** Human behaviour; deportment.
* (architecture) A course of stones.

#### Related terms

* courser
* coursly

#### Descendants

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

#### References

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

### Adjective

cours
* Ordinary, coarse; of inferior grade or quality.

#### Descendants

* English: coarse
* Scots: coorse

#### References

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

## Norman
### Etymology

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

### Noun

cours m (plural cours)
* (Jersey) currency

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* cors, curs

### Etymology

From Latin cursus.

### Noun

cours oblique singular, m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)
* route, path
* course, way

#### Synonyms

* route
* voie

#### Related terms

* corre
* corsier

#### Descendants

* Middle French: cours
** French:
    cours
**   * → Japanese: クール (kūru)
**   ** → English: cours, cour
**   * → Luxembourgish: Cours
**   * → Ottoman Turkish: قورس (kurs)
**   ** Turkish: kur, kurs
**   * → Vietnamese: cua
    course
**   * → Catalan: cursa
**   * → Dutch: koers
**   * → Romanian: cursă
**   * → Swedish: kosa
**   * → Vietnamese: cuốc
** → Middle Dutch: coers
*** Dutch: koers
**** → Indonesian: kurs (“exchange rate”)
***** → Tetum: kurs
* Norman: course
* → Irish: cúrsa
* → Middle English: cours, cors, cource, course, cowrs, cowrse, curs, kours
** English: course
*** → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)
** Scots: coorse
** → Welsh: cwrs