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parcurs

route /parˈkurs/

noun#3702 most common

Also: course, distance covered, path traveled

Example sentences

Parcursul este scurt.
The route is short.
Avem un parcurs de zece kilometri.
We have a ten-kilometer route.
Parcursul cursei trece prin pădure.
The race route goes through the forest.
Distanța parcursă până acum este mare.
The distance covered so far is large.
Parcursul carierei sale a fost neobișnuit.
His career path was unusual.
Kilometrii parcurși în acest maraton reflectă un parcurs plin de perseverență.
The kilometers covered in this marathon reflect a course full of perseverance.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeparcursparcursuri
Genitiveparcursuluiparcursurilor
Accusativeparcursparcursuri
Vocativeparcursparcursuri

Word family

a parcurgeto traverse, to cover (a distance)
curscourse, flow, exchange ratecursărace, flight, errandconcurscompetition, contest
decurgeto proceed, to unfold

Etymology

Parcurs comes from the Latin percursus, the past participle of percurrere, formed from per- (through) and currere (to run). Romanian a parcurge kept this sense of running or moving through a distance, and parcurs split off as a noun and adjective meaning the route or distance covered. The word likely reached Romanian through French parcours as much as directly from Latin, common for 19th-century vocabulary modernization.

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