cour

From Japanese クール (kūru), from French cours. Attestable in English among the anime community from at least 2007. Doublet of course and cursus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

cour (plural cours)

1. A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
2. A portion of a television program aired over the course of one such period, comprising 10 to 14 weekly episodes.

• air de cour (etymologically unrelated)

• What is a cour and a season in anime?

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sou̯r]

cour

1. genitive plural of coura

Inherited from Old French cort, inherited from Latin cortem, shortening of cohors. Doublet of cohorte and court (“tennis court”).

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ/

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• Homophones: coure, courent, coures, courre, cours, court, courts
• Rhymes: -uʁ

cour f (plural cours)

1. courtyard, yard
2. court (of law)
3. (royal) court
4. following (of a celebrity etc.)

• courtisan
• courtiser
• courtois

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

From Old French cort, from Latin cortem, accusative of cors, shortening of cohors.

cour f (plural cours)

1. (Jersey) court

From Old French cuer, from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

• IPA^(key): /kuːʀ/

cour m (plural cours)

1. (anatomy) heart