Origin of "of course"?
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Seems you are right
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=course
Phrase of course is attested from 1540s; lit. "of the ordinary course;" earlier in same sense was bi cours (c.1300).
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The NOAD reports that the origin of course is Middle English: from Old French cours, from Latin cursus, from curs- (run), from the verb currere.
(See also the definition of course given by Oxford Living Dictionaries.)