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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recursō''' (present infinitive recursāre); first conjugation, intransitive^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ Only forms of the present stem are found.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|recurrō|-tō|t1=to run back]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|currō|t=to run]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*korse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*krs-e/o-|t=to run]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is the first to use it, in ''quid ego huc recursem?'', “why should I keep running back here?”^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lucretius uses it of particles that leap far apart and rebound far (''longe longeque recursant'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From Virgil on it is used figuratively of what keeps coming back to the mind: ''sub noctem cura recursat'', care returns at nightfall, and ''multa viri virtus animo ... recursat''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Later poets follow him: Seneca of Medea rushing to and fro, and Statius and Silius of cares and images that keep returning,^(OLD 2012) and Tacitus writes ''recursabant animo vetera omina''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Terentianus Maurus applies it to metrical feet.^(OLD 2012) The glossaries explain it as “runs more often”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of rebounding particles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of cares and memories that keep returning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it in his ''Medea''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of old omens recurring to the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To keep running back, [[m|en|return]] again and again; to run to and fro.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To keep [[m|en|rebound|alt=rebounding]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To keep [[m|en|recur|alt=recurring]] to the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[recurrō]]

+ * [[currō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}