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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānscurrō''' (present infinitive trānscurrere, perfect active trānscurrī or trānscucurrī, supine trānscursum); third conjugation^(OLD 2012)

+ The perfect is ''trānscurrī'' in Cicero, the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', Livy and Quintilian, and ''trānscucurrī'' in Pliny the Elder, Suetonius and Curtius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ An edict has ''trānscocurrerint''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|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]], comparing [[sga|carr|t=vehicle]]; he notes that compounds in ⟨-currō⟩ are more often figurative than those in ⟨-cursō⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus tells someone to run across to them quickly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to run or hurry across from one place to another, and figuratively to change quickly from one mode to another, as metaphors in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(OLD 2012) It is also to move rapidly through or past: Caesar has the Massilians trying to sweep off the oars of ships by running past them, and Lucretius images that cross immense space in a moment.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder has a white line running across a leaf, and Silius an arrow passing through both temples.^(OLD 2012) It is to pass by unnoticed or treat cursorily: the elder Seneca has one declaimer pressing a point another had skimmed over.^(OLD 2012) Of time it is to run its course: Seneca writes that while we put things off, life runs past.^(OLD 2012) Cicero has men who had run their full course, like Cyrus and Alexander.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to pass through.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of images crossing space.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of ships running past oars.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of life running past.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run or hurry across; to change quickly from one thing to another.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To run through or past; of a line, to run across.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of a weapon, to pass right through.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To pass by unnoticed; to treat cursorily, [[m|en|skim]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of time, to run its course; to run through a career.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[transcursio]]

+ * [[transcursorius]]

+ * [[trānscursus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[curro|alt=currō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}