Where does “curso” come from?
curso (Spanish) comes from Catalan cursar, from Latin curso, from Latin currō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
curso (Spanish): course, trajectory, route, direction; class,...
Definitions
- course, trajectory, route, direction; class,...
Ancestry of “curso”, step by step
curso traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan cursar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | cursar | To attend; to enrol |
| 2 | Latin | curso | I run around; I run hither and thither; dative... |
| 3 | Latin | currō | to run |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
via Latin cursus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | cursus | The act of running; race; Course, way, passage,... |