corage

Borrowed from Old French corage.

corage (plural corages)

1. courage
2. heart
   • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 20-22.

     In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
     Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
     To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,

     In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay
     Ready to go on pilgrimage and start
     To Canterbury, full devout at heart,

• English: courage
• → Irish: coráiste

• coraige

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corāticum. Attested in the Alexis.^[1]

• (classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈɾad͡ʒə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /kuˈɾaʒə/

corage oblique singular, m (oblique plural corages, nominative singular corages, nominative plural corage)

1. courage
   • c. 1200, author unknown, Des Tresces, page 1:

     Il ot une feme de grant paraige,
     Qui avoit mit tot son coraige.

     He had a noble wife,
     Who has done all she could. (literally, had put all her courage)

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