cursus

Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.

cursus (plural cursuses or (both rare) cursus or cursūs or (nonstandard) cursi)

1. (rare) A course; a journey or progression.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 574:

     His cursus from Fréjus to Paris turned into a triumphal march, with whole towns and villages staging ceremonial entrées for him and cheering his passage.

2. (archaeology) A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
3. A racecourse.
4. An academic curriculum.
5. A form of daily prayer or service.

Borrowed from Latin cursus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏr.zʏs/

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• Hyphenation: cur‧sus

cursus m (plural cursussen, diminutive cursusje n)

1. an educational course, on its own or as part of an academic or evening school curriculum
2. the documentation associated with a course, usually compiled by teachers themselves

• cursist

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cursus m. Doublet of cours m and course f.

• IPA^(key): /kyʁ.sys/

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cursus m (plural cursus)

1. course (learning program)

• “cursus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊr.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkur.sus]

currō +‎ -sus (action noun)

cursus m (genitive cursūs); fourth declension

1. The act of running; race.
2. Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.534:

     Hic cursus fuit

     This was [our] voyage
     (The first of many incomplete lines in the Aeneid.)

3. (figuratively) Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage, tendency; career

Fourth-declension noun.

• cursārius
• cursuālis

Perfect passive participle of currō (“run”).

cursus (feminine cursa, neuter cursum, adverb cursim); first/second-declension participle

1. (of a race, journey) run, having been run
2. travelled through, traversed, ran, having been traversed

First/second-declension adjective.

• “cursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cursus", 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)
• cursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to run till one is out of breath: cursu exanimari (B.G. 2. 23. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
    
  • (ambiguous) to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
    
  • (ambiguous) to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri)
    
  • (ambiguous) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)
    
• “cursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cursus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin