cursor

• cursour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanProto-Indo-European.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜ˞ sə˞]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜː sə]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

cursor (plural cursors)

1. a part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
2. (graphical user interface) a moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
3. (graphical user interface) an indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place

   Synonym: the caret

4. (databases) a reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it
5. (programming) a design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly

   Synonym: the iterator pattern

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
   • 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)

     The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

• electronic display
• GUI
• pointer

From currō (“run”) +‎ -sor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.sor/

cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension

1. a runner, racer
2. a courier, messenger, post
3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

Third declension.

• cursor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cursor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cursor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from Latin cursor, cursōrem.

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

Borrowed from Latin cursor, cursōrem.

• IPA^(key): /kurˈsoɾ/

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. (computing) cursor

   Synonym: puntero