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noun a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
originFrom Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0