cours – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of cours

Noun: cours
Sg.cours
Pl.courses

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • […]and the yonge sonne / Hath in the ram his half cours yronne / And smale foweles maken melodye[…] ([…] and the young Sun / has made half its journey in Aries, / while small birds make melodies […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 7-9:]

Nouns inflected like cours

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cours, curs, from Latin cursus; compare Middle Dutch coers. See: Latin Nouns 'cursus'.

Verbs referencing "cours"

English Nouns course.

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