cursus.
running; speed/zeal; charge, onrush; forward movement/march; revolution (wheel); course/direction, line of advance, orbit; voyage/passage; race; career; series; |lesson;
Meaning & usage
the act of running; race
Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march
Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage, tendency; career
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-éti Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti Proto-Italic *korzō Latin currō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -sus Latin cursus From currō + -sus (action noun).
run, having been run
travelled through, traversed, ran, having been traversed
Where this word comes from
Perfect passive participle of currō (“run”).
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