court
KORT · noun
LatinLate LatinOld FrenchMiddle EnglishEnglish
Origin
"Court" comes from Middle English court, from Old French cort/curt, from Late Latin cōrs, which was a contraction of Latin cohors.
Journey
The facts don't detail a specific shift in meaning across these stages, only the chain of borrowing from Latin through French into English.
Related words
"Court" is a doublet of "cohort" — both descend from the same Latin word cohors, just by different routes into English.