parcours

See also: Parcours

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parcours.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑrˈkur/, /pɑrˈkurs/, [-uː-]

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• Hyphenation: par‧cours
• Rhymes: -ur, -urs

Noun

parcours n (plural parcoursen, diminutive parcoursje n)

1. route of a race
2. (figurative) steps needed to achieve an objective

Usage notes

The final ⟨s⟩ can be silent in the main form as it is in French, but in the plural and diminutive forms it is sounded.

Hypernyms

• traject

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin percursus, nominalised past participle of percurrere. Parcourir is a much later borrowing from percurrere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.kuʁ/

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• Rhymes: -uʁ

Noun

parcours m (invariable)

1. route, course
2. career
3. (historical) a traditional roaming or grazing right
4. (golf) round; course

Synonyms

• trajet

Derived terms

• à mi-parcours
• accident de parcours
• incident de parcours
• parcours de santé
• parcours du combattant
• parkour

Related terms

• parcourir

Descendants

• → Polish: parkur
• → Turkish: parkur

Verb

parcours

1. inflection of parcourir:
   1. first/second-person present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• procuras