occursus Latin · revision 32427

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=ine-pro *kr̥s-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''occursus''' ''m'' (genitive occursūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts of the Vulgate and later texts also spell it ''ocursus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|occurrō|-tus|t1=to run to meet]], like [[m|la|accursus]] and [[m|la|recursus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) [[m|la|occurrō]] is a compound of [[m|la|ob-]] and [[m|la|currō|t=to run]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-|t=to run]] and [[ine-pro|*kr̥s-e/o-|t=to run]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ovid;^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy also has it, of streets where no one was met.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a coming face to face, a meeting: Velleius tells how Clodius was killed in a brawl that started when he met Milo.^(OLD 2012) It can be a meeting meant to stop someone, as the guards' intervention in Curtius, and in Seneca a conjunction of heavenly bodies.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it of an enemy's charge, Pliny the Elder of an attack of illness, and Ovid of a wheel shattered against a stump in its path.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that neither Cicero nor Caesar uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Medieval texts use it of a visit or arrival, a due paid by those under a lord's protection, and mooring dues.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a wheel striking a stump.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of an enemy's charge.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of an attack of illness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – a due owed to a protector; mooring dues.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|meeting]], [[m|en|encounter]]; an intervention;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary) ''(astronomy)'' a [[m|en|conjunction]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An attack, charge, onset; an attack of illness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A meeting that bars the way, an obstacle.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A visit, arrival.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A due paid to a protector; mooring dues.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[occurro|alt=occurrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}