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court

/ˈkɔːt/KAWRT
/ˈkɔɹt/KAWRT

Meaningenclosure or courtyard

Common meaning: place where legal cases are heard

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GHAR‘seize, grasp, hold, contain’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 113, p. 734 · scan
  2. Latincohors‘enclosure or courtyard’source
  3. Old Frenchcort‘yard or court’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsenclosure or courtyard → place where legal cases are heardcourt‘place where legal cases are heard’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin cohors ‘enclosure or courtyard’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry COURT, p. 138 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • cohors Latin “enclosure or courtyard”

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