cursive

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɝsɪv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːsɪv/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv

Adjective

cursive (comparative more cursive, superlative most cursive)

1. Running; flowing.
2. (of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
   • 2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 269:

     Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q.

3. (grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).

Derived terms

• cursive singing
• cursivity
• cursivization
• noncursive
• precursive
• semicursive

Translations

having successive letters joined together

Armenian: ձեռագիր (hy) (jeṙagir) Catalan: cursiu Chinese: Mandarin: 草書 / 草书 (zh) (cǎoshū) French: cursif (fr), attaché (fr) Georgian: გადაბმული (gadabmuli) German: kursiv (de) Hungarian: folyóírással írott Indonesian: kursif (id), miring (id) Italian: corsivo (it) Japanese: 筆記体 (ja) (hikkitai) Malay: berangkai Norwegian: kursiv (no) Portuguese: cursivo (pt) Romanian: cursiv (ro) Russian: рукопи́сный (ru) (rukopísnyj), курси́вный (ru) (kursívnyj) Spanish: en cursiva Swedish: kursiv (sv), handskriven (sv) Turkish: italik (tr) Vietnamese: viết thảo

Noun

cursive (countable and uncountable, plural cursives)

1. (countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
2. (countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
3. (uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.

   Antonym: printing

   Hypernym: handwriting

Antonyms

• print

Derived terms

• cursively
• cursiveness
• minuscule cursive
• Roman cursive

Related terms

• course
• discursive
• incursive

Translations

character

Bulgarian: курсив (bg) (kursiv) Catalan: cursiva (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 草書 / 草书 (zh) (cǎoshū), 手寫體 / 手写体 (zh) (shǒuxiětǐ) Dutch: cursief (nl) f Finnish: kursiivi (fi) French: cursive (fr) f German: Kursivbuchstabe m Indonesian: huruf sambung, kursif (id) Japanese: 草書 (ja) (そうしょ, sōsho) - for kanji or kana; 筆記体 (ja) (ひっきたい, hikkitai) - for Latin or Greek letters, etc. Polish: kursywa (pl) f Russian: рукопи́сный шрифт m (rukopísnyj šrift), ско́ропись (ru) f (skóropisʹ), курси́в (ru) m (kursív) Turkish: el yazısı (tr)

manuscript

Dutch: cursiefje (nl) Indonesian: tulisan sambung Japanese: 草書 (ja) (そうしょ, sōsho) - for kanji or kana. Russian: ру́копись (ru) f (rúkopisʹ)

joined-up handwriting

Chinese: Mandarin: 草書 / 草书 (zh) (cǎoshū) Finnish: kaunokirjoitus (fi) German: Schreibschrift (de) f, Kursivschrift (de) f, Verbundschrift f, kursive Schrift f, fließende Handschrift f Norwegian: løkkeskrift (no) m or f Swedish: skrivstil (sv) c Turkish: el yazısı (tr)

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Italian: (please verify) corsivo (it) m

See also

• handwriting
• italic
• longhand
• shorthand

Anagrams

• cruives, cuviers

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyʁ.siv/

• Audio:

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Noun

cursive f (plural cursives)

1. cursive letter

Adjective

cursive

1. feminine singular of cursif

Further reading

• “cursive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cuivres, cuivrés