recurro Latin · revision 31987

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *kr̥s-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''recurrō''' (present infinitive recurrere, perfect active recurrī, supine recursum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ A reduplicated perfect ''recucurrit'' occurs only in Paulinus of Nola.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|currō|t2=to run]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|currō]] to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-|t=to run]] and [[ine-pro|*kr̥s-e/o-|t=to run]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἐπίκουρος|tr=epíkouros|t=helper]] and [[sga|carr|t=vehicle]].^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is in Plautus, “I run back to the old woman”.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to run or hurry back, and of heavenly bodies to return in their course, as Virgil's sun looking on both oceans as it returns.^(OLD 2012) Of things it is to run or fall back, as in Seneca, or to run backwards, as Ovid's river flowing back to its source.^(OLD 2012) Horace uses it of the return of winter in the year's cycle and of going back in thought.^(OLD 2012) It also means to revert to a former state, as in Cicero, and in Pliny the Younger to recur to the mind.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian uses it of arguments that cannot be reversed, and Columella of having recourse to something.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “run back, come back, return, recur”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|recur]] first meant to recover from illness, in the late 14th century, and to return from the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of running back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of things returning whence they came.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the sun's course.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the return of winter and of thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of having recourse to something.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English [[m|en|recur]] in the sense “to return”.^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run or hurry back; of heavenly bodies, to return; of things, to fall back, run backwards.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To return in a cycle, come back.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To go back in thought; to [[m|en|recur]] to the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To revert to a former state.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a process, to run in reverse.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To have [[m|en|recourse]] to, fall back on.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Word family==

+ * [[recursiō]]

+ * [[recursus]]

+ * [[recursō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[curro|alt=currō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}