Cursor

See also: cursor

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cursor.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkœrzər/, [ˈkœɐ̯zɐ]
  • Audio(file)

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. (computing) cursor (icon of a pointing device)
  2. (computing) cursor (icon indicating where the next insertion should take place)

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Synonyms
  • (pointing device): Mauszeiger (specialist); Pfeil (informal)
  • (insertion): Eingabemarkierung, Eingabezeiger, Eingabestrich (the last informal)

Further reading
  • “Cursor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Cursor” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Cursor” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

From cursor (“runner”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cursor m sg (genitive Cursōris); third declension

  1. a cognomen famously held by:
    1. Lucius Papirius Cursor, a Roman consul

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  • “Cursor2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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