occurso Latin · revision 32978

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔkˈkʊr.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [okˈkur.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''occursō''' (present infinitive occursāre, perfect active occursāvī, supine occursātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''obc-'';^(OLD 2012) a deponent ''occursor'' occurs too.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|occurrō|-tō|t1=to run to meet]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|occurrō]] is a compound of [[m|la|currō|t=to run]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*kr̥s-e/o-|t=to run]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan notes that compounds in ⟨-currō⟩ often have a figurative sense, while the more recent ones in ⟨-cursō⟩ always mean running.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Plautus on, twice, then once in Cato and in Lucretius.^(TLL) Plautus asks why someone keeps running up to this house whenever they come to town.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to run up again and again or in numbers, to keep approaching, and of troops to make frequent sallies, as Livy's Gauls on the bank.^(OLD 2012) With a dative it is to get in the way, to block: Sallust has others killed as they ran to meet them, Virgil warns against meeting the he-goat, and Tacitus has someone blocking those in flight.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Things can be obstacles too, as the rocks among which Pliny the Elder's Nile is said to rush.^(OLD 2012) In Pliny the Younger it is to meet the eye, or to crowd into the mind; he also tells Caesar that it is a noble thing to go and meet fortune.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of things simply occurring.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is not used by Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of running up again and again.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of people running to meet others.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of sallies by the Gauls.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of blocking those in flight.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run up repeatedly or in numbers; to go to [[m|en|meet]]; of troops, to make sallies.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To get in the way, block, [[m|en|obstruct]]; to be an obstacle.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To meet the eye; to [[m|en|occur]] to the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to occur, be found.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[occursāculum]]

+ * [[occursātiō]]

+ * [[occursātor]]

+ * [[occursātrix]]

+ * [[occursiō]]

+ * [[occursor]]

+ * [[occursus]]

+ * [[occursitō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[occurrō]]

+ * [[occursōrius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}