cour
French
noun
Definitions
- courtyard, yard
- (legal) court
- (royal) court
- following (of a celebrity etc.)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cort (court of a monarch) inherited from Latin cortem.
Origin
Latin
cortem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cors Latin
- cortem Latin
- cōrs, cōrtem, cors Latin
- corteggiare Italian
- koer Dutch, Flemish
- arrière-cour French
- courette French
- courtois French
- discourtois French
- *ǵʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- court Middle English
- cort Old French
- cort, curt Old French
- corteier Old French
- cortois Old French
- cour Norman
- court Middle French