accursus
Forms
accursus m (genitive accursūs); fourth declension[1][2] Manuscripts mostly spell it adcursus.[3]
Etymology
It is from Latin accurrō (“to run up”) + -tus.[1][2] accurrō is a compound of ad- and currō (“to run”),[4] which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *korse/o- (“to run”) and Proto-Indo-European *krs-e/o- (“to run”).[5]
Earliest recorded meaning
Ovid has it of the running up of Remus;[2] Köbler dates it from Tacitus.[6]
Semantic evolution
It is a running or rushing up, to see or to help:[1] Valerius Maximus has someone hoping to escape a threatening danger by another's quick arrival.[1] Statius has companions running up, Tacitus the people and the provinces rushing to a place, and Seneca citizens.[2] It is also an attack or onset: Pliny the Elder admires how watchful and ready a spider's rush is when prey falls into its web.[1]
Timeline
- 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of Remus running up.[2][6]
- 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a spider's rush on its prey.[1][6]
- 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of crowds rushing up.[2][6]
Meanings
Noun
Related words
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
- ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de