different between carse vs corse

English

Etymology

Of Celtic origin. Compare Welsh cars (“bog, fen”), carsen (“reed”), Armoric kars, korsen (“bog plant, reed”).

Noun

carse (plural carses)

1. (Scotland) Low, fertile land; a river valley.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, sacre, scare, serac, sérac

English

Etymology

From Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??s/

Noun

corse (plural corses)

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:

     Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.

Anagrams

• Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, creos, ocres, score

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s/

Adjective

corse (plural corses)

1. Corsican

Noun

corse m (uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

Verb

corse

1. first-person singular present indicative of corser
2. third-person singular present indicative of corser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of corser
5. second-person singular imperative of corser

Further reading

• “corse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ocres, score, scoré

Italian

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?kor.se/, [?kor?s?e]
• Hyphenation: cór?se

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa

Verb

corse

1. third-person singular past historic of correre

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.se/, [?k?r?s?e]
• Hyphenation: còr?se

Adjective

corse

1. feminine plural of corso

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa

Anagrams

• Creso

Latin

Adjective

corse

1. vocative singular masculine of corsus