cursor

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.

The facts given trace only the word's descent from Latin into English; no further shift in meaning is specified here.

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.