occurro Latin · revision 7736

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la currō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''occurrō''' (present infinitive occurrere, perfect active occurrī, supine occursum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ob-]] “towards, against” and [[currō]] “to run”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) The perfect is usually ⟨occurrī⟩, rarely ⟨occucurrī⟩, as in Plautus and Phaedrus, and Tubero has ⟨occecurrit⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of meeting by chance.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to run to meet, as Caesar's going to meet someone coming, and in Cicero to help, and in Livy to arrive for an event.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it meant to meet a situation, to fall in with someone's wishes, to counteract, and to counter an argument.^(OLD 2012) In Tacitus it meant to flow against, in Pliny the Elder to block the way, and in Caesar to confront an enemy.^(OLD 2012) From Plautus it meant to meet by chance, and in Virgil to meet the eye.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to present itself to the mind, to occur, and of things to crop up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to go to meet, meet, come to, occur.^(Stelten 1995) It was borrowed into Italian as ''occorrere'' and Spanish ''ocurrir'', and [[en|occur]] came in the 1520s, “to meet in argument”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of meeting by chance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of going to meet.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of occurring to the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English ''occur'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run to meet; to help; to arrive.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To meet (a situation); to fall in with.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To run against; to face; to be contrary.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To confront; to block.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To counteract; to counter (an argument).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To meet by chance; to meet the eye.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|occur]] to the mind; to crop up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[occursō]]

+ * [[occursiō]]

+ * [[occursor]]

+ * [[occursōrius]]

+ * [[occursus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[occursāculum]]

+ * [[occursātiō]]

+ * [[occursātor]]

+ * [[occursātrix]]

+ * [[occursitō]]

+ * [[currō]]

+ * [[en|occur]]

+ * [[en|occurrence]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}