corsair

Meaning

Noun

• A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
• A privateer or pirate in general
• The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality
• A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus (genus), found in the southern USA.
• A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus (species)).

Origin

• Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius ("pirate"), from Latin cursus ("course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad"). hussar.