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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of concurrō.
Participle
concursus (feminine concursa, neuter concursum); first/second-declension participle
- flocked
- concurred
- coincided
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Etymology 2
From concurrō (“I run together, flock”) + -tus (noun formation suffix). Compare concursiō derived from the same verb.
Noun
concursus m (genitive concursūs); fourth declension
- a convergence of people; an assembly
- Synonyms: concilium, cōntiō, congressus, coetus, coitiō, conventus
- an uproar, tumult
- Synonyms: seditio, turba, inquies, tumultus, inquiētūdō, perculsus, fragor
- an attack, charge, an assault (of troops)
- Synonyms: impetus, invāsiō, assultus, aggressiō, impressiō, appetītus, occursĭo, oppugnātiō, incursus, petītiō, incursiō, vīs, ictus, procella
- a union, conjunction, combination (of objects)
- Synonym: ūniō
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “concursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concursus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- concursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum