# curso
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkur.su]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈkur.so]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkuɾ.so]

### Verb

curso
* first-person singular present indicative of cursar

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Unknown.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkuɾsʊ]

#### Noun

curso m (plural cursos)
* (anatomy) rectum
    Synonym: recto

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin cursus (“course, act of running”), from currō (“I run”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkuɾsʊ]

#### Noun

curso m (plural cursos)
* course (period of learning)
* course (path, route)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “curso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “curso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “curso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “curso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “curso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkur.soː/, [ˈkʊrs̠oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkur.so/, [ˈkurso]

### Etymology 1

From currō (“run”) +‎ -tō.

#### Verb

cursō (present infinitive cursāre, perfect active cursāvī, supine cursātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive
* to run around; to run hither and thither

##### Derived terms

* cursitō

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

cursō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cursus

### References

* “curso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* curso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkuʁ.su/ [ˈkuh.su]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkuʁ.su/ [ˈkuh.su]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈkuɾ.su/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈkuʁ.su/ [ˈkuχ.su]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkuɻ.so/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkuɾ.su/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -uʁsu, (Portugal) -uɾsu
* Hyphenation: cur‧so

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cursus (“course, act of running”), from currō (“to run”). Compare the inherited doublet corso.

#### Noun

curso m (plural cursos)
* course (period of learning)
* course (path, route)
    Synonyms: percurso, caminho, rota
* watercourse

##### Related terms

* correr, cursar, cursista, cursivo, cursor, discurso, recurso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

curso
* first-person singular present indicative of cursar

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkurso]

### Noun

curso f
* vocative singular of cursă

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuɾso/ [ˈkuɾ.so]
* Audio (Latin America pronounced sample):(file)
* Rhymes: -uɾso
* Syllabification: cur‧so

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cursus. See also coso, a doublet inherited from the same origin.

#### Noun

curso m (plural cursos)
* course, trajectory, route, direction
* class, course (learning program, as in a school)
    un curso intensivo ― a crash course
* course (path, sequence, development, or evolution)
* (colloquial, Mexico, Central America) diarrhea
    Synonym: diarrea

##### Derived terms

* baile de fin de curso
* concurso
* cursar
* cursi
* cursillo
* cursiva
* de curso legal
* discurso
* en curso
* en el curso de
* recurso
* transcurso

##### Related terms

* correr
* cursar
* cursivo
* cursor
* discurso
* recurso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

curso
* first-person singular present indicative of cursar

### Further reading

* “curso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10