English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English courser, Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius. By surface analysis, course + -er. Doublet of corsair and hussar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːsə/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
- Homophones: curser, cursor
Noun
[edit]courser (plural coursers)
- A dog used for coursing.
- A hunter who practises coursing.
- A swift horse; a racehorse or a charger.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 57:
- Sir Launfal is instantly set at liberty, and vaulting on the courser his mistress had bestowed on him, and which was held at hand by his squire, he follows her out of the town.
- Any of several species of terrestrial bird in the genera Cursorius and Rhinoptilus.
- A stone used in building a course.
Derived terms
[edit]- bronze-winged courser, Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Burchell's courser, Cursorius rufus
- cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor
- double-banded courser, Rhinoptilus africanus
- Indian courser, Cursorius coromandelicus
- Jerdon's courser, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
- Somali courser, Cursorius somalensis
- Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii
- three-banded courser, Rhinoptilus cinctus
Translations
[edit]bird
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “courser”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]- 👁 Image
courser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - 👁 Image
Cursorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - 👁 Image
Category:Cursorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From course.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]courser
- (colloquial) to purchase
- (colloquial) to chase
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of courser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | courser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | coursant /kuʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | coursé /kuʁ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | course /kuʁs/ |
courses /kuʁs/ |
course /kuʁs/ |
coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/ |
coursez /kuʁ.se/ |
coursent /kuʁs/ |
| imperfect | coursais /kuʁ.sɛ/ |
coursais /kuʁ.sɛ/ |
coursait /kuʁ.sɛ/ |
coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
coursiez /kuʁ.sje/ |
coursaient /kuʁ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | coursai /kuʁ.se/ |
coursas /kuʁ.sa/ |
coursa /kuʁ.sa/ |
coursâmes /kuʁ.sam/ |
coursâtes /kuʁ.sat/ |
coursèrent /kuʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | courserai /kuʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
courseras /kuʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
coursera /kuʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
courserons /kuʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
courserez /kuʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
courseront /kuʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | courserais /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
courserais /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
courserait /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
courserions /kuʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
courseriez /kuʁ.sə.ʁje/ |
courseraient /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | course /kuʁs/ |
courses /kuʁs/ |
course /kuʁs/ |
coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
coursiez /kuʁ.sje/ |
coursent /kuʁs/ |
| imperfect2 | coursasse /kuʁ.sas/ |
coursasses /kuʁ.sas/ |
coursât /kuʁ.sa/ |
coursassions /kuʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
coursassiez /kuʁ.sa.sje/ |
coursassent /kuʁ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | course /kuʁs/ |
— | coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/ |
coursez /kuʁ.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “courser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius; equivalent to cours + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]courser (plural coursers)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “cǒursẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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