cors

See also: CORS, còrs, and côrs

English

Noun

cors

1. plural of cor

Anagrams

• OCRs, ORCs, ROCs, ROSC, orcs, rocs, rosc

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin corsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔrs]

Adjective

cors (feminine corsa, masculine plural corsos, feminine plural corses)

1. Corsican

Noun

cors m (plural corsos, feminine corsa)

1. Corsican (person)

Noun

cors m (uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

Related terms

• Còrsega

Etymology 2

From Latin cursus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkors]

Noun

cors m (plural corsos)

1. privateering campaign

Derived terms

• patent de cors

Related terms

• corsari
• corsarisme

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencia) [ˈkɔrs]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, most parts) [ˈkɔrs], (some parts of Menorca) [ˈkɔs]

Noun

cors

1. plural of cor
2. hearts (card suit)

Further reading

• “cors” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cors” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cors” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cors”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cors” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin corpus (“body”).

Noun

cors m (plural cors)

1. Archaic spelling of corps.

Etymology 2

see cor

Noun

cors m

1. plural of cor

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin cursus.

Noun

cors m (plural cors)

1. course

Related terms

• corse
• cori

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koːrs/, [koːrs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kors/, [kɔrs]

Noun

cōrs f (genitive cōrtis); third declension

1. Alternative form of cohors

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōrs	cōrtēs
Genitive	cōrtis	cōrtum
Dative	cōrtī	cōrtibus
Accusative	cōrtem	cōrtēs
Ablative	cōrte	cōrtibus
Vocative	cōrs	cōrtēs

Descendants

• → Albanian: kurt
• Aromanian: curti
• Catalan: cort
• Corsican: corti
• Old French: cort
  • French: cour
  • → Middle English: court, cort, corte, cortt, courte, curt, curth
    • English: court (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: court, coort
• Friulian: cort
• Galician: corte
• → Irish: cúirt
• Italian: corte
• Occitan: cort
• Portuguese: corte
• Romanian: curte
• Romansch: curt, cuort
• Sardinian: colte, corte, corti
• Sicilian: curti, (hence) curtigghiu
• Spanish: corte
• Venetan: corte, cort

References

• “cors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cors in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

cors

1. Alternative form of cours

Adjective

cors

1. Alternative form of cours

Old French

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾs/

Noun

cors oblique singular, m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural cors)

1. body
   • c. 1250, Marie de France, Equitan:

     m'est une anguisse el quer ferue, ki tut le cors me fet trembler

     Such a pain has pierced my heart, that makes my whole body quiver

Descendants

• Middle French: cors
  • French: corps
    • Karipúna Creole French: kó
    • → Danish: korps
    • → English: corps
    • → Dutch: corps, korps
    • → German: Korps
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: korps
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
    • → Romanian: corp (in part)
    • → Swedish: kår
• Walloon: coirps, corps
• → Middle English: corse
  • English: corpse
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: cos
  • Galician: cós
  • Portuguese: cós

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

cors m

1. body

Descendants

• Occitan: còs

Picard

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

cors m (plural cors)

1. body

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cyrs

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *korks; related to Cornish kors (“reeds”), Breton korz (“reeds”), and further to Old Irish curchais (“reedbed”), and perhaps to Latin cārex (“sedge”). Cameron connects Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ- (“to turn (around), wind”), on the basis of Latin scirpus, reasoning that reeds and bulrushes were formerly used to make ropes. However, this root gave Middle Irish corb (“wagon(-seat)”), making it phonetically unlikely.

Noun

cors f (plural corsydd or cyrs)

1. bog

   Synonyms: mign, siglen

2. reeds

   Synonyms: cawn, cecs

Derived terms

• berwr melyn y gors (“marsh yellowcress”)
• bras y cyrs (“reed bunting”)
• gold y gors, rhuddlas y gors (“marsh marigold”)
• hocys y gors (“marsh mallow”)
• marchrawn y gors (“marsh horsetails”)

Compounds

• corsle (“reedbed”)
• corslwyn (“reedbed”)
• corswellt (“reed grass”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cors	gors	nghors	chors
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cors”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies