cursor

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

Noun

cursor (plural cursors)

  1. A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
    • 1679, Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, Joseph Moxon, The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more, page 150:
      Besides, the Reader must know, if a Brazen graduated Semi-Circle were hung on the Poles here, with an erected moveable Pin, or Cursor on it, there would be no need of the Holes […] in each Parallel of the Globe, for the true Composing of it […]
  2. (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
  3. (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
  4. (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
  5. (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
    Synonym: iterator pattern

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Verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

  1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
    • 1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22:
      The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

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Latin

Etymology

From currō (“run”) +‎ -sor.

Pronunciation

Noun

cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension

  1. a runner, racer
  2. a courier, messenger, post
  3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cursor cursōrēs
Genitive cursōris cursōrum
Dative cursōrī cursōribus
Accusative cursōrem cursōrēs
Ablative cursōre cursōribus
Vocative cursor cursōrēs

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Descendants

  • English: cursor
  • French: curseur
  • Italian: cursore
  • Norman: curseu (Jersey)
  • Portuguese: cursor
  • Romanian: cursor
  • Spanish: cursor

References

  • “cursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cursor 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)
  • cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cursor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cursor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cursōrem.

Pronunciation

 
 

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

  1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
  2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French curseur.

Noun

cursor n (plural cursoare)

  1. cursor

Declension

Declension of cursor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cursor cursorul (niște) cursoare cursoarele
genitive/dative (unui) cursor cursorului (unor) cursoare cursoarelor
vocative cursorule cursoarelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuɾˈsoɾ/
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: cur‧sor

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

  1. (computing) cursor
    Synonym: puntero

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