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Latin
Etymology
From per- (“through, along; during”) + currō (“run; hurry; travel”).
Pronunciation
Verb
percurrō (present infinitive percurrere, perfect active percucurrī, supine percursum); third conjugation
- to run, hasten or pass through, traverse, pass or run over or along; stroke
- Synonyms: mulceō, palpō
- to wind or bend around
- (figuratively) to mention briefly or cursorily
- (figuratively) to scan (briefly), look over; review
- (figuratively) (of feelings) to run through, penetrate, agitate
Conjugation
Note that the perfect active indicative can be written as percurrī rather than percucurrī
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References
- “percurro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “percurro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- percurro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to read cursorily: legendo percurrere aliquid