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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [kɔŋˈkʊr.roː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [koŋˈkur.ro][1]

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

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