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Where does “parkour” come from?

parkour (English) comes from French parkour, from French parcours, from Vulgar Latin percursus, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille.

parkour (English): An athletic discipline, in which practitioners...

Definitions

  1. An athletic discipline, in which practitioners...

Ancestry of “parkour”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchparkourFree running, parkour
2Frenchparcoursroute, course; career; a traditional roaming or...
3Vulgar Latinpercursus
4Latinpercurreresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
5Latinperthrough, by means of; throughout, during
6LatinAd—
7Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
8Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
9LatinolleArchaic form of ille
10Proto-Italic*olnos—

Words derived from “parkour”

  • parkoured
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