court
KORT · noun
Origin
"Court" comes from Middle English court, from Old French cort/curt, from Late Latin cōrs, which was a contraction of Latin cohors.
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Related words
"Court" is a doublet of "cohort" — both descend from the same Latin word cohors, just by different routes into English.