succurro Latin · revision 30905

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊkˈkʊr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sukˈkur.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''succurrō''' (present infinitive succurrere, perfect active succurrī, supine succursum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''subcurrō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|sub-|currō|t1=under; up to|t2=to run]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|currō]] to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-|t=to run]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱr̥s-e/o-|t=to run]], cognate with [[grc|ἐπίκουρος|tr=epíkouros|t=helper]], literally “running towards”, and [[sga|carr|t=vehicle]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest examples are in Lucretius, who asks why another body could not run under the moon, and in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense is to run or go under, and of places to stretch to the foot of something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From running up to help it is to hasten to someone's rescue, as Cicero's slaves who were kept from helping their master, and to help those in trouble without any idea of running.^(OLD 2012) It is used of remedying a disgrace, of circumstances that help (Propertius: your nobility will not help you in love), of legal relief, and of medical aid (Celsus).^(OLD 2012) Of thoughts it is to come to mind: Cicero says such ideas occurred to him.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “aid, help, succor, run to the aid of, support”.^(Stelten 1995) Its noun ''succursus'', “help”, gave English ''succor'' (c. 1200) through Anglo-French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a body running under the moon.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of help and of thoughts that occur.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of medical aid.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English [[m|en|succor]], from ''succursus''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run under, ''(of places)'' to extend to the foot of.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To run to the rescue of; to [[m|en|help]], [[m|en|succor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To remedy; to give medical aid.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of ideas)'' To come to mind, occur.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[succursor]]

+ * [[succursus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[currō]]

+ * [[occurrō]]

+ * [[concurrō]]

+ * [[en|succor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}