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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.

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From Late Latin

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