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Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
curso
- first-person singular present indicative of cursar
Galician
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Pronunciation
Noun
curso m (plural cursos)
- (anatomy) rectum
- Synonym: recto
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin cursus (“course, act of running”), from currō (“I run”).
Pronunciation
Noun
curso m (plural cursos)
- course (period of learning)
- course (path, route)
References
- “curso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “curso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “curso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “curso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “curso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin
Pronunciation
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
Conjugation
Derived terms
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
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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
curso
- first-person singular present indicative of cursar
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
curso f
- vocative singular of cursă
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuɾso/
- 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
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
curso
- first-person singular present indicative of cursar
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