excurro Latin · revision 32242

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''excurrō''' (present infinitive excurrere, perfect active excurrī or excucurrī, supine excursum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is usually ''excucurrī'' (Plautus, Livy, Pliny the Younger), less often ''excurrī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|currō|t1=out|t2=to run]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|currō]] to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*kr̥s-e/o-|t=to run]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Plautus' ''Bacchides'', of someone who will learn that he has run out there in vain.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to run or rush out, and in war to make a sally; of water to flow out, as Curtius' spring from the top of a mountain, and of branches to grow out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to make an excursion, and in speech to go off into a digression: Cicero wants speech not to wander or run on too far.^(OLD 2012) Of places and buildings it means to jut out or extend, as Vitruvius' projecting bases, and in grammar a word to end in a form.^(OLD 2012) It also means to run to an amount, and to go beyond a limit, as Seneca's things that seem to go beyond human nature.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of running out on an errand.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a digression.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of parts of a building that project.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of people rushing into the street.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run or rush out; to make a [[m|en|sally]]; of water, to flow out; of shoots, to grow out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make an [[m|en|excursion]]; in speaking, to go off into a [[m|en|digression]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To jut out, [[m|en|project]], extend; in grammar, to end in a form.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To run to an amount or weight; to go beyond a limit.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[excursiō]]

+ * [[excursor]]

+ * [[excursus]]

+ * [[superexcurrō]]

+ * [[excursō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[excursātiō]]

+ * [[excursātor]]

+ * [[curro|alt=currō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}