English word course comes from Latin crescendum, Proto-Indo-European *kers-, and later Proto-Italic *korzō (To run.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| crescendum | Latin (lat) | |
| *kers- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
| *kor- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
| sincerus | Latin (lat) | Clean, pure, sound.. Genuine, sincere.. Real, natural.. Uninjured, whole. |
| curro | Latin (lat) | (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 (ine) | to run |
| *korzō | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | To run. |
| cursus | Latin (lat) | (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 (fro) | Route; course; way. |
| course | English (en) | (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 [...] |