Word of the Day – Corsair

Corsair (noun) (archaic)

kaw-sair

A pirate. /  A privateer, especially one operating along the southern shore of the Mediterranean in the 16th–18th centuries.

Mid 16th century: from French corsaire, from medieval Latin cursarius, from cursus ‘a raid, plunder’, special use of Latin cursus ‘course’, from currere ‘to run’.

Example sentences

“The seas are full of cut throats and corsairs, be wary out there!.”