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English word course comes from Latin crescendum, Proto-Indo-European *kers-, and later Proto-Italic *korzō (To run.)

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crescendum (Latin)

*kers- (Proto-Indo-European)

*kor- (Proto-Indo-European)

sincerus (Latin)

Clean, pure, sound.. Genuine, sincere.. Real, natural.. Uninjured, whole.

curro (Latin)

(intransitive) I hurry, hasten, speed. (intransitive) I move, travel, proceed. (intransitive) I run. (transitive, of a race, journey, with accusative) I run. (transitive, with accusative) I travel through, traverse, run.

*ḱers- (Proto-Indo-European)

to run

*korzō (Proto-Italic)

To run.

cursus (Latin)

(figuratively) Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage; career.. Course, way, passage, journey; tendency.. Journey, march, voyage, passage.. The act of running; race.

cours (Old French)

Route; course; way.

course (English)

(especially in, _, medicine) A treatment plan.. (golf) A golf course.. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.. (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.. (music) A string on a lute.. (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a [...]

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