percurro Latin · revision 31363

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *krs-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''percurrō''' (present infinitive percurrere, perfect active percucurrī, supine percursum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''percucurrī'' or ''percurrī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|per-|t=through]] and [[m|la|currō|t=to run]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan derives ⟨currō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*korse/o-|t=to run]] and [[ine-pro|*krs-e/o-|t=to run]], cognate with [[sga|carr|t=vehicle]] and [[grc|ἐπίκουρος|tr=epíkouros|t=helper]], literally “running towards”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence has “hurrying to you, I run to the forum” in the ''Andria''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to run or move quickly through or over a place, and to run through, as the veins in the ''Aetna'' that run through whole bodies.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of natural things it is to sweep over, as Lucretius' whirlwind racing over sea and land, and of sensations to pass through, as Apuleius' smell.^(OLD 2012) It is to travel quickly through a place, as Lentulus' tour of his province, to run the eye over or skim, as Livy's pages of the annals, and to hold offices one after another, as Pliny the Younger's man who passed through the quaestorship, tribunate and praetorship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It is to touch in quick succession, as Lucretius' lips running over the reeds of a pipe, and to run over in words or thought, as Cicero's speech that runs briefly through matters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “run through, hasten to, persevere to the end, travel, look over”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of running to the forum.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a whirlwind and of playing a pipe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a speech running through matters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of skimming the annals.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run through, hasten over; to run through (as a line).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To sweep over;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(of sensations)'' to pass through.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|traverse]], tour; to [[m|en|skim]] (with the eyes); to hold (offices) in turn.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To touch in quick succession, stroke.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To run over (in words), [[m|en|review|alt=review]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[percursiō]]

+ * [[percursus]]

+ * [[percursō]]

+ * [[percursor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[accurrō]]

+ * [[antecurrō]]

+ * [[circumcurrō]]

+ * [[concurrō]]

+ * [[currō]]

+ * [[dēcurrō]]

+ * [[discurrō]]

+ * [[excurrō]]

+ * [[incurrō]]

+ * [[intercurrō]]

+ * [[cursus]]

+ * [[peragrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}