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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɜːsə/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: curser, cursor

名詞

courser (plural coursers)

1. A dog used for coursing.
2. A hunter who practises coursing.
3. A swift horse; a racehorse or a charger.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 57:

     Sir Launfal is instantly set at liberty, and vaulting on the courser his mistress had bestowed on him, and which was held at hand by his squire, he follows her out of the town.

4. Any of several species of terrestrial bird in the genera Cursorius and Rhinoptilus.
5. A stone used in building a course.

派生語

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “courser”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Further reading

• courser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cursorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cursorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• Correus, correus, scourer, sourcer

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius; equivalent to cours +‎ -er.

発音

• IPA: /kuːrˈseːr/, /ˈkuːrsər/, /kurˈseːr/, /ˈkursər/

名詞

courser (plural coursers)

1. A charger (large horse for battle)
2. (by extension) Any stallion; any horse.

派生した語

• English: courser
• Scots: couser, cusser, cuisser
• → Middle Welsh: cwrser

参照

• “cǒursẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.