cursus

noun

1. A course; a journey or progression.

   rare

   His cursus from Fréjus to Paris turned into a triumphal march, with whole towns and villages staging ceremonial entrées for him and cheering his passage.

2. A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.

3. A racecourse.

4. An academic curriculum.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cursus (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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