Borrowed fromLatin cursor ( “ runner ” ) , fromcurrō ( “ run ” ) +-or ( agentive suffix ) . Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European
cursor (plural cursors
A part of any of severalscientific ormeasuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate aposition .1679 Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine ,Joseph Moxon ,The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more , page150 :Besides, theReader must know, if aBrazen graduated Semi-Circle were hung on thePoles here, with an erected moveablePin , orCursor Holes [ …] Parallel of theGlobe , for the trueComposing of it[ …]
( graphical user interface ) icon or other representation, usually called apointer , of the position of thepointing device .( computing ) indicator , often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.Synonym: caret ( databases ) table , which moves from row to row as data isretrieved by way of it.( programming ) design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.Synonym: iterator patternpart of scientific instruments that indicates position
GUI: moving icon representing the position of a pointing device
Armenian:նշորդ ( nšord ) Belarusian:курсо́р m ( kursór ) Bulgarian:ку́рсор (bg) m ( kúrsor ) Catalan:cursor (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:游標 / 游标 ( yóubiāo ) Cornish:resell f Danish:musepil c pil c markør c Dutch:muisaanwijzer m cursor (nl) m Esperanto:kursoro sg muskursoro sg Finnish:osoitin (fi) French:curseur (fr) m German:Mauszeiger (de) m Greek:δρομέας (el) m ( droméas ) ,κέρσορας (el) m ( kérsoras ) Hebrew:סמן (he) m ( samán ) ,מצביע m ( matsbía , literally“ pointer ” ) ,עכבר (he) m ( akhbár , literally“ mouse ” ) ,סמן עכבר m ( saman akhbár , literally“ mouse-cursor ” ) Hungarian:kurzor (hu) Icelandic:bendill (is) m músarbendill m ( mouse cursor ) Japanese:カーソル (ja) ( kāsoru ) Korean:커서 ( keoseo ) Maori:pehu Polish:kursor (pl) m Portuguese:cursor (pt) m ponteiro (pt) m Russian:курсо́р (ru) m ( kursór ) Slovene:kazalnik m kurzor m Spanish:cursor m puntero (es) m Swedish:muspekare (sv) c pekare (sv) c Thai:please add this translation if you can Tibetan:འོད་རྟགས ( 'od rtags , literally“ light-sign ” ) ,མདའ ( mda' , literally“ arrow ” ) ( specifically, arrow-shaped cursors ) Turkish:imleç (tr) Ukrainian:курсо́р (uk) m ( kursór ) Vietnamese:con trỏ (vi) Welsh:cyrchwr m
computing: indicator of where the next insertation or other edit will take place
database: reference to a row
programming: iterator pattern
Translations to be checked
cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors present participle cursoring simple past and past participle cursored
( intransitive , computing ) navigate by means of thecursor keys .1990 May 28,InfoWorld , volume12 , number22 :The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun whencursoring through file lists.
Fromcurrō ( “ run ” ) +-sor
cursor m genitive cursōris third declension
arunner ,racer acourier ,messenger ,post aslave , who ran before thechariot of agrandee ,forerunner Third-declension noun.
“cursor Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary "cursor ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis cursor inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. “cursor Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers “cursor William Smith, editor (1848 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London: John Murray Learned borrowing fromLatin cursōrem
cursor m plural cursores
cursor ( part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position ) ( graphical user interface ) cursor ( icon representing the position of a pointing device ) Borrowed fromFrench curseur
cursor n plural cursoare
cursor Borrowed fromLatin cursōrem
IPA (key ) : /kuɾˈsoɾ/ [kuɾˈsoɾ] Rhymes:-oɾ Syllabification:cur‧sor cursor m plural cursores
( computing ) cursor Synonym: puntero 
