Etymology

cour

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Today it means: A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons. Full definition →

Japanese クール ← French cours
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  1. French · derived fromcours
  2. Japanese · derived fromクール
  3. English todaycour

Back-formation from cours from Japanese クール (kūru), from French cours. Attestable in English among the anime community from at least 2007. Anime News Network's Lexicon Encyclopedia dictates the original cours to be unchanged in singular form, though that has been reanalyzed as a plural form.

Words from the same roots

Japaneseクール all →

cours

Frenchcours all →

cours

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.