Noun: corsair
| Singular | corsair |
| Plural | corsairs |
Sample Sentences
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"If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, genteel highwayman or patriot―and they're the same thing," thought Mr. Tappertit, musing among the nine-pins, "I should have been all right. But to drag out a ^([sic]) ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general―patience! I will be famous yet." [1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 34.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like corsair
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin cursus
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusnom.
6. Latin -ārius
7. Medieval Latin cursāriusder.
8. Italian corsarobor.
9. French corsairebor.
10. English corsair
11. Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of courser and hussar. See: French Nouns '
corsaire', Latin Nouns '
cursus'.
Verbs referencing "corsair"
Icelandic Nouns
kussari.