concurro

Forms

concurrō (present infinitive concurrere, perfect active concurrī, supine concursum); third conjugation^[1] Varro, Livy, Seneca, Pliny the Elder and Suetonius have the reduplicated perfect concucurrī.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + currō (“to run”).^[2][1][4][5] De Vaan traces currō to Proto-Italic *korse/o- and Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-e/o- (“to run”).^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Ennius,^[6] who writes of armies that ānsātīs concurrunt undique tēlīs, “charge from all sides with thonged spears”.^[2]

Semantic evolution

Concurrō is to run together, hurry to one place, flock together, and to come in crowds for some purpose, ad arma concurrere is to rush to arms.^[2][3] In battle it is to charge each other, and of things to collide (Varro, of tides meeting in a strait, Lucretius).^[2][1] Of events it is to happen at the same time, coincide, and of facts or statements to agree, fit together (Terence: many things come together that point to this guess).^[2][1]

Church Latin glosses it “assemble, join, concur, collaborate; happen, meet; compete”.^[7] English concur (early 15th century) first meant “to clash”.^[5]

Timeline

• 204–169 BC – Ennius: concurrunt undique tēlīs.^[2][6][8]
• 116–27 BC – Varro of meeting tides.^[2][8]
• early 15th century – English concur.^[5]

Meanings

Verb

1. To run together, flock together, assemble.^[2][3][1][7]
2. To resort (to); ad arma concurrere, to rush to arms.^[2]
3. To charge, engage in battle.^[2][1]
4. To collide, clash.^[2][1]
5. To coincide, happen together.^[2][1][7]
6. To agree, fit together, concur.^[2][1][7]

Word family

• concursiō
• concursus
• concursō

Related words

• concursātiō
• concursātor
• concursātōrius
• currō
• occurrō
• English concur

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
6. ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
7. ^ a b c d Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
8. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de