concursatio Latin · revision 33611

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *krs-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concursātiō''' ''f'' (genitive concursātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|concursō|-tiō|t1=to run to and fro]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|concursō]] is a frequentative of [[m|la|concurrō|t=to run together]], from [[m|la|currō|t=to run]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*krs-e/o-|t=to run]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in a speech on the agrarian law describes the crowd running together to ask what the praetor had decreed: ''quae concursatio percontantium quid praetor edixisset!''^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the action of running together, a crowding or disorderly meeting of people,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the action of running or travelling to and fro, as in Cicero's mocking picture of the profitable journeys of the ten commissioners.^(OLD 2012) In military use it is a skirmish of light troops: Livy contrasts the mobility and speed of one side with the weight of the other.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it figuratively for a coincidence, asking what order there could be in the chance concurrence of dreams.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary adds a figurative sense of restlessness or anxiety.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a crowd running together and of journeys to and fro.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of skirmishing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a disorderly crowding together.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A running together, a [[m|en|crowd|alt=crowding]], a disorderly meeting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A running or travelling to and fro.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' A [[m|en|skirmish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|coincidence]], a chance concurrence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Restlessness, anxiety.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[concursō]]

+ * [[concurrō]]

+ * [[concursus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}