DictionaryRoot: currere
Latin
currere
run
Forms
- curr-
- curs- — Latin stem used in forms referring to having run.
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *kers-, ‘run.’
Note
Running became a metaphor for flow and the course of events.
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verb
recur
rih-KUR/rɪˈkɜːr/
To occur again after an interval.
Etymology
The pieces give the image of running back. Recur moved from a person's return to the return of thoughts to the mind, and then to events happening again.
Related word entries
- concourse
- concurCoinciding
- concurAgreement
- concurrenceAgreement
- concurrenceSimultaneous occurrence
- concurrentAt the same time
- concurrentMeeting at one point
- corsair
- currency
- current
- cursive
- cursor
- cursory
- discourse
- excursion
- incur
- incursion
- occurHappen
- occurCome to mind
- occurBe present
- occurrence
- precursor
- recourse
- recur
- recurrent
- reoccur
- succor