Where does “coursework” come from?
Coursework derives from English course and work, with course tracing to Middle English cours, Old English curs, and Latin cursus (a running), from Latin curro (to run), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱers- (to run).
coursework (English): Work carried out by students of a particular...
Definitions
- Work carried out by students of a particular...
Ancestry of “coursework”, step by step
coursework traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English course
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | course | A sequence of events; A path that something or... |
| 2 | French | cours | stream of water, river; course; teaching, lesson,... |
| 3 | German | Kurs | course; exchange rate, market price |
| 4 | Italian | corso | course; stream, waterway; avenue |
| 5 | Latin | cohors | a court; a farmyard or enclosure; a retinue or... |
| 6 | Latin | co- | allomorph of con- |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |