cursor
KUR-sur · noun
Origin
Borrowed from Latin cursor, meaning "runner," formed from the verb currō, "to run," plus the agentive suffix -or, which turns an action into a doer of that action.
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Related words
It shares its root currō, "to run," with any English word built on that same running stem, making "cursor" part of a family of words about motion and running.