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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [kɔŋˈkʊr.soː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [koŋˈkur.so][1]

Forms

concursō (present infinitive concursāre, perfect active concursāvī, supine concursātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + cursō (“to run about”), beside concurrō.[2][3] The frequentative ⟨cursō⟩ comes from currō (“to run”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *korse/o- (“to run”) and Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥s-e/o- (“to run”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL finds it from Accius on,[3] who has whirlwinds rising from clashing waves.[2]

Semantic evolution

It is to run together or clash, as Lucretius' seeds clashing and leaping apart, and to assemble.[2][5] Far more often it is to run to and fro, rush about: Lucilius has someone bawl from the rostra running about, Caesar's Titurius panics and runs about, and Cicero has young men with little beards rushing about.[2][5] With an object it is to visit in turn, to tour, as Lucilius' fields.[2] In military language Livy uses it of skirmishing.[5] Late glosses explain it as coming together into one place.[3]

Timeline

  • 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of clashing waves.[2][3]
  • 2nd century BC – Lucilius of running about.[2][6]
  • c. 50 BC – Caesar of a panicking commander.[5]
  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of skirmishing.[5]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To run together, clash; to assemble.[2][5][1]
  2. To run to and fro, rush about, rove.[2][5][1]
  3. To visit in turn, travel through.[2]
  4. (military) To skirmish.[5]

Word family

References

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