cursus

From Latin cursus.

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

1. (rare) A course; a journey or progression.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 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.sʏs/

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• Hyphenation: cur‧sus

cursus m (plural cursussen, diminutive cursusje n)

1. course

• cursist

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of cours.

• IPA^(key): /kyʁ.sys/

cursus m (plural cursus)

1. course (learning program)

• “cursus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkʊr.sʊs]

currō +‎ -sus (action noun)

cursus m (genitive cursūs); fourth declension

1. The act of running; race.
2. Course, way, passage, journey; tendency.
3. Journey, march, voyage, passage.
4. (figuratively) Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage; career.

Fourth declension.

• cursārius
• cursuālis

Perfect passive participle of currō (“run”).

cursus m (feminine cursa, neuter cursum); first/second declension

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

First/second declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• cursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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