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Yes. The word cursus is a Scrabble US word. The word cursus is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (2 found)

CURSUS,RUSCUS,

5-letter words (1 found)

SCURS,

4-letter words (7 found)

CRUS,CURS,CUSS,RUCS,SCUR,SUSU,URUS,

3-letter words (5 found)

CRU,CUR,RUC,SUR,SUS,

2-letter words (2 found)

UR,US,

You can make 17 words from cursus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cursus

cursus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.

Noun

cursus (plural cursuses or (both rare) cursus or cursūs or (nonstandard) cursi)

  1. (rare) A course; a journey or progression.
  2. (archaeology) A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
  3. A racecourse.
  4. An academic curriculum.
  5. A form of daily prayer or service.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʏr.zʏs/
  • Hyphenation: cur‧sus

Noun

cursus m (plural cursussen, diminutive cursusje n)

  1. An educational course, on its own or as part of an academic or evening school curriculum.
  2. The documentation associated with a course, usually compiled by teachers themselves.

Related terms

  • cursist

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of cours.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kyʁ.sys/

Noun

cursus m (plural cursus)

  1. course (learning program)

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkʊrs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sus/, [ˈkursus]

Etymology 1

currō +‎ -sus (action noun)

Noun

cursus m (genitive cursūs); fourth declension

  1. The act of running; race.
  2. Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march
  3. (figuratively) Course, progress, direction, development, succession, passage, tendency; career
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • cursārius
  • cursuālis
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Descendants

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of currō (“run”).

Participle

cursus (feminine cursa, neuter cursum, adverb cursim); first/second-declension participle

  1. (of a race, journey) run, having been run
  2. travelled through, traversed, ran, having been traversed
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • “cursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cursus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “cursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cursus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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