discurro Latin · revision 31655

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la currō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''discurrō''' (present infinitive discurrere, perfect active discurrī, supine discursum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Besides ''discurrī'' the reduplicated perfect ''discucurrī'' is found in Livy, the elder Seneca and Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|currō|t2=to run]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨currō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*korsō|alt=*korse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱers-|alt=*kr̥s-e/o-|t=to run]], cognate with [[sga|carr|t=vehicle]] and with the Gaulish source of Latin [[carrus]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is Caesar, who describes the armed citizens running about on the walls.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to run off in different directions”, and also “to run about, to and fro”: Ovid has Pan delighting to run about the high mountains.^(OLD 2012) It is said of things that spread in different directions, as Virgil's Nile running out through seven mouths, and of the mind or a speaker branching out or ranging over a subject.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “run to and fro”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of people running about.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the Nile branching out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of running about and of the mind divided.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run off in several directions, [[m|en|disperse]]; to run about, to and fro, [[m|en|roam]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of things, to run or extend in different directions.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of the mind or a speaker, to branch out; to range over a subject.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[discursim]]

+ * [[discursiō]]

+ * [[discursus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[currō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}