acosar
/akoˈsaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to bully
🐺 Latin ad + cursare, to keep running at: same root as course and pursue
Acosar comes from Vulgar Latin *accursare, to run after again and again. Hearing a-COS-ar as a-course is a useful hook: you keep chasing someone along their course without letting up, which is harassing or besieging them.