courser
English
A courser (Cursorius rufus)
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from Old French curs (“course”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːsɜ/
- Homophones: curser, cursor
Noun
courser (plural coursers)
- A dog used for coursing.
- A person who practises coursing.
- A hunter.
- A stone used in building a course.
- A racehorse or a charger.
- Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.
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
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From course.
Verb
courser
- (colloquial) to purchase
Conjugation
Conjugation of courser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | courser | avoir coursé | |||||
| gerund | en coursant | en ayant coursé | |||||
| present participle | coursant /kuʁ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | coursé /kuʁ.se/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | course /kuʁs/ |
courses /kuʁs/ |
course /kuʁs/ |
coursions /kuʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
coursiez /kuʁ.sje/ |
coursent /kuʁs/ |
| imperfect1 | coursasse /kuʁ.sas/ |
coursasses /kuʁ.sas/ |
coursât /kuʁ.sa/ |
coursassions /kuʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
coursassiez /kuʁ.sa.sje/ |
coursassent /kuʁ.sas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | course /kuʁs/ |
— | coursons /kuʁ.sɔ̃/ |
coursez /kuʁ.se/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “courser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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