Etymology

courseware

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Today it means: Educational software or documents in computerized form that facilitate course-based learning and teaching. Full definition →

English softwarebf. ← Middle English ware ← Old English waru
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The story

  1. Latincursus
  2. Old Frenchcours
  3. Middle Englishcours
  4. Englishcourse
  5. Proto-West Germanic*samft(ī)
  6. Old Englishsōfte
  7. Middle Englishsofte
  8. Englishsoft
  9. Proto-Germanic*warō
  10. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  11. Old Englishwaru
  12. Middle Englishware
  13. Englishsoftwarebf.
  14. English todaycourseware

From course + -ware.

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