cuer

English

Etymology

cue +‎ -er

Noun

cuer (plural cuers)

One who cues.
- 2010, Carol J. LaSasso, ‎Kelly Lamar Crain, ‎Jacqueline Leybaert, Cued Speech and Cued Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
  Cuers of English and other traditionally spoken languages are concerned solely with conveying the visible consonant-vowel phoneme-equivalents and the accompanying prosodic information.
(dance) The caller in a round dance.

Anagrams

Cure, crue, cure, ecru, écru

Catalan

Etymology

cua (“tail”) +‎ -er. Compare Spanish colista.

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers)

(sports) Team bottom of a league.

Middle French

Alternative forms

quer

Etymology

From Latin chorus.

Noun

cuer m (plural cuers)

choir

Descendants

French: chœur
(→English: choir)

Old French

Alternative forms

coer, quer (both less common)

Etymology

From Latin cor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kwer/, [kwør]

Noun

cuer m (oblique plural cuers, nominative singular cuers, nominative plural cuer)

(anatomy) heart
(figuratively, by extension) heart (loving/romantic feelings)

Related terms

corage

Descendants

Middle French: coeur, cueur, cœur
- French: cœur
  - Haitian Creole: kè, kœ
Norman: tchoeu
Walloon: cour

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