decurro
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deːˈkur.roː/, [d̪eːˈkʊrːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈkur.ro/, [d̪eˈkurːo]
Verb
editdēcurrō (present infinitive dēcurrere, perfect active dēcurrī, supine dēcursum); third conjugation
- to run, flow, move, sail or swim down
- Synonym: dēscendō
- Antonyms: ascendō, cōnscendō, īnscendō, escendō, ēnītor, scandō, superscandō, subeō
- to charge or skirmish
- to hasten, rush down
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 2.21:
- Caesar, necessariis rebus imperatis, ad cohortandos milites, quam [in] partem fors obtulit, decucurrit et ad legionem decimam devenit.
- Caesar, having given the necessary orders, hastened to and fro into whatever quarter fortune carried him, to animate the troops, and came to the tenth legion.
- Caesar, necessariis rebus imperatis, ad cohortandos milites, quam [in] partem fors obtulit, decucurrit et ad legionem decimam devenit.
- to exercise or drill (troops)
Conjugation
edit- Perfect forms dēcucurrī are occasionally found.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: decórrer
- Galician: decorrer
- Italian: decorrere
- Portuguese: decorrer
- Spanish: decorrerse
References
edit- “decurro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decurro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decurro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to run obliquely down the hill: obliquo monte decurrere
- to manœuvre: decurrere (in armis)
- to run obliquely down the hill: obliquo monte decurrere