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English
Noun
cors
- plural of cor
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology 1
From Latin corsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cors (feminine corsa, masculine plural corsos, feminine plural corses)
- Corsican
Noun
cors m (plural corsos, feminine corsa)
- Corsican (person)
Noun
cors m (uncountable)
- Corsican (language)
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Latin cursus.
Pronunciation
Noun
cors m (plural corsos)
- privateering campaign
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
cors
- plural of cor
- hearts (card suit)
Further reading
- “cors” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cors” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cors” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “cors”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cors” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
French
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin corpus (“body”).
Noun
cors m (plural cors)
- Archaic spelling of corps.
Etymology 2
see cor
Noun
cors m
- plural of cor
Further reading
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin cursus.
Noun
cors m (plural cors)
- course
Related terms
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
cōrs f (genitive cōrtis); third declension
- Alternative form of cohors
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “cors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cors in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Noun
cors
- Alternative form of cours
Adjective
cors
- Alternative form of cours
Old French
Etymology
From Latin corpus.
Pronunciation
Noun
cors oblique singular, m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cors)
- body
c. 1250, Marie de France, Equitan:m'est une anguisse el quer ferue, ki tut le cors me fet trembler- Such a pain has pierced my heart, that makes my whole body quiver
Descendants
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin corpus.
Noun
cors m
- body
Descendants
Picard
Etymology
From Latin corpus.
Noun
cors m (plural cors)
- body
Welsh
Alternative forms
Etymology
Related to Old Irish curchas (“clump of reeds”), Latin carex (“reedgrass”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ- (“to turn (around), wind”), as reeds and bulrushes were formerly used to make ropes. For this sense, compare Latin scirpus.
Noun
cors f (plural corsydd)
- bog
- Synonyms: mign, siglen
- reeds
- Synonym: cawn
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- ^ Cameron, J. (1883). Gaelic names of plants, Scottish and Irish, with notes. United Kingdom: (n.p.), p. 85
Further reading
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cors”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies