cursor
Latin
noun
Definitions
- a runner, racer
- a courier, messenger, post
- a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner
Etymology
Affix from Latin currō (run, I run, race, hurry, travel, move quickly) root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (run, hurry).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱers-
Gloss
run, hurry
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
走
Emoji
🎽 🏃 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 💨
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cursor English
- cursorless English
- cursus English
- curule English
- incursive English
- occurrent English
- parkour English
- postcursor English
- recur English
- recurse English
- recursively English
- recursivity English
- reoccur English
- reoccurrence English
- -torium Latin
- accurro Latin
- antecurro Latin
- carrus Latin
- carrūca Latin
- circumcurro Latin
- concurro Latin
- currere Latin
- curriculum Latin
- currilis Latin
- currulis Latin
- currō Latin
- cursio Latin
- curso Latin
- cursorius Latin
- cursus Latin
- curulis Latin
- decurro Latin
- discurro Latin
- discurrō Latin
- discursivus Latin
- discursus Latin
- excurro Latin
- incurrere Latin
- incurro Latin
- incursio Latin
- incursionem, incursio Latin
- occurro Latin
- occurrō Latin
- percurro Latin
- praecurro Latin
- recurrens Latin
- recurrentia Latin
- recurro Latin
- recursiō Latin
- recursus Latin
- succurro Latin
- succurrēre Latin
- viam Latin
- Cursor German
- kurzor Hungarian
- steppicursore Italian
- courir French
- curseur French
- ἐπίκουρος Ancient Greek
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥sós Proto-Indo-European
- *hrussą Proto-Germanic
- *hurskaz Proto-Germanic
- *hurskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hurzaną Proto-Germanic
- カーソル Japanese
- socouren Middle English
- coreor Old French
- curseu Norman
- occurrence Middle French
- correr Old Portuguese
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- *korzō Proto-Italic
- corrieu Old Occitan
- ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲥⲱⲣ Coptic
- viam
- currō
- curso
- carrus
- cursio
- cursus
- occurrō
- curulis
- occurro
- -torium
- accurro
- decurro
- incurro
- carrūca
- currere
- recurro
- excurro
- incursio
- percurro
- currilis
- currulis
- discurrō
- recursus
- recursiō
- discurro
- concurro
- succurro
- antecurro
- praecurro
- incurrere
- discursus
- recurrens
- incursio
- cursorius
- succurrēre
- curriculum
- recurrentia
- discursivus
- incursionem
- circumcurro