verified etymologyen
courage
cor
heart
-age
state of
what is in the heart
Courage is a heart-word: Latin cor, heart. Its early sense was ‘heart as the seat of feeling; spirit, temperament’ — the ‘facing danger’ meaning came later. To have courage was never to feel no fear; it was to act from the heart.
source · Vulgar Latin *corāticum < Latin cor ‘heart’, via Old French corage — etymonline.com/word/courage