courser

English

A courser (Cursorius rufus)

Etymology

From Middle English courser, Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius. By surface analysis, course +‎ -er. Doublet of corsair and hussar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːsə/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
• Homophones: curser, cursor

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

1. A dog used for coursing.
2. A hunter who practises coursing.
3. A swift horse; a racehorse or a charger.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 57:

     Sir Launfal is instantly set at liberty, and vaulting on the courser his mistress had bestowed on him, and which was held at hand by his squire, he follows her out of the town.

4. Any of several species of terrestrial bird in the genera Cursorius or Rhinoptilus of the family Glareolidae.
5. A stone used in building a course.

Derived terms

• bronze-winged courser, Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
• Burchell's courser, Cursorius rufus
• cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor
• double-banded courser, Rhinoptilus africanus
• Indian courser, Cursorius coromandelicus
• Jerdon's courser, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
• Somali courser, Cursorius somalensis
• Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii
• three-banded courser, Rhinoptilus cinctus

Translations

dog used for coursing

• Finnish: ajokoira (fi)

bird

• Czech: běhulík m
• Finnish: aavikkojuoksija (fi) (Cursorius); viippa (fi) (Rhinoptilus)
• Russian: бегуно́к (ru) m (begunók), бегунки́ (ru) m pl (begunkí)
• Spanish: corredor (es) m

References

• courser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cursorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cursorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Correus, correus, scourer, sourcer

French

Etymology

From course.

Pronunciation

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Verb

courser

1. (colloquial) to purchase
2. (colloquial) to chase

Conjugation

Conjugation of courser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	courser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	coursant /kuʁ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coursé /kuʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	course /kuʁs/	courses /kuʁs/	course /kuʁs/	coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/	coursez /kuʁ.se/	coursent /kuʁs/
	imperfect	coursais /kuʁ.sɛ/	coursais /kuʁ.sɛ/	coursait /kuʁ.sɛ/	coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/	coursiez /kuʁ.sje/	coursaient /kuʁ.sɛ/
	past historic2	coursai /kuʁ.se/	coursas /kuʁ.sa/	coursa /kuʁ.sa/	coursâmes /kuʁ.sam/	coursâtes /kuʁ.sat/	coursèrent /kuʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	courserai /kuʁ.sə.ʁe/	courseras /kuʁ.sə.ʁa/	coursera /kuʁ.sə.ʁa/	courserons /kuʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	courserez /kuʁ.sə.ʁe/	courseront /kuʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	courserais /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	courserais /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	courserait /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	courserions /kuʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	courseriez /kuʁ.sə.ʁje/	courseraient /kuʁ.sə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	course /kuʁs/	courses /kuʁs/	course /kuʁs/	coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/	coursiez /kuʁ.sje/	coursent /kuʁs/
	imperfect2	coursasse /kuʁ.sas/	coursasses /kuʁ.sas/	coursât /kuʁ.sa/	coursassions /kuʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	coursassiez /kuʁ.sa.sje/	coursassent /kuʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	course /kuʁs/	—	coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/	coursez /kuʁ.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• recours

Middle English

Alternative forms

• corser, corsour, courseer, coursier, coursour, cowcer, cowrsure, cowser, cowsere, cursere, cursour

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius; equivalent to cours +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːrˈseːr/, /ˈkuːrsər/, /kurˈseːr/, /ˈkursər/

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

1. A charger (large horse for battle)
2. (by extension) Any stallion; any horse.

Descendants

• English: courser
• Scots: couser, cusser, cuisser
• → Middle Welsh: cwrser

References

• “cǒursẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.