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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cursō''' (present infinitive cursāre, perfect active cursāvī, supine cursātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ Some manuscripts have ''corsat''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|currō|-tō|t1=to run]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Priscian notes that such frequentatives are mostly formed from the supine, ⟨cursum⟩ giving ⟨cursō⟩.^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|currō]] to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-|t=to run]] and [[ine-pro|*krs-e/o-|t=to run]], and notes that the compounds in ⟨-cursō⟩ keep the literal sense more than those in ⟨-currō⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it of running to and fro, ''ultro et citro'';^(Lewis & Short 1879) Bentley restored it by conjecture in a line of Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to run, hurry or rush constantly about, to and fro;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has running hither and thither, ''huc illuc'', and men who run about the gangways of a ship.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus uses it of rushing about the city,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Valerius Flaccus of running into all the streets.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary notes that it is impersonal in the passive.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of running to and fro.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of rushing about the city.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|run]], hurry or rush about, to and fro, hither and thither.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumcursō]]

+ * [[concursō]]

+ * [[cursatio]]

+ * [[cursilitas]]

+ * [[cursitō]]

+ * [[discursō]]

+ * [[excursō]]

+ * [[intercursō]]

+ * [[percursō]]

+ * [[prōcursō]]

+ * [[recursō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[currō]]

+ * [[cursus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}