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occurrentia

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Forms

occurrentia f (genitive occurrentiae); first declension[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin occurrō (“to run to meet, to happen”) + -entia, through its present participle occurrēns.[2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

In a Polish synodal record of 1398, chapters are to last four days unless shortened because of some occurrence.[2]

Semantic evolution

It meant an occasion, chance or event,[4][3] and also circumstances.[2] In the Church's calendar it came to name the falling of two feasts on the same day.[1]

Timeline

  • 1398 – A Polish synodal record uses it of an occurrence that may shorten a meeting.[2]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (Medieval Latin) An occurrence, event, chance.[4][2][3]
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) The meeting of two feasts on one day.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lexicon mediae et infimae Latinitatis Polonorum (1953–), Kraków: Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN; electronic ed. elexicon.scriptores.pl
  3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  4. ^ a b du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre