discursive
English
/dɪsˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
adj
Definitions
- (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
- (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French discursif derived from Latin discursus (the act of running about, running about), discursivus root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (run, hurry).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱers-
Gloss
run, hurry
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
走
Emoji
🎽 🏃 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 💨
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antidiscursive English
- counterdiscursive English
- cursus English
- curule English
- cyberdiscursive English
- discourse English
- discursively English
- discursiveness English
- discursivity English
- incursive English
- interdiscursive English
- interdiscursively English
- interdiscursivity English
- macrodiscursive English
- metadiscursive English
- microdiscursive English
- nondiscursive English
- occurrent English
- parkour English
- recur English
- recurse English
- recursively English
- recursivity English
- reoccur English
- reoccurrence English
- transdiscursive English
- undiscursive English
- -torium Latin
- carrus Latin
- carrūca Latin
- currere Latin
- curriculum Latin
- currilis Latin
- currulis Latin
- cursio Latin
- curso Latin
- cursor Latin
- cursorius Latin
- cursus Latin
- curulis Latin
- discurro Latin
- discurrō Latin
- discursivus Latin
- discursus Latin
- incurrere Latin
- incurro Latin
- incursio Latin
- incursionem, incursio Latin
- occurro Latin
- occurrō Latin
- percurro Latin
- recurrens Latin
- recurrentia Latin
- recurro Latin
- recursiō Latin
- recursus Latin
- succurrēre Latin
- viam Latin
- diskurzus Hungarian
- discorso Italian
- steppicursore Italian
- discours French
- discursif French
- дискурс Russian
- discurso Spanish, Castilian
- ἐπίκουρος Ancient Greek
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥sós Proto-Indo-European
- discurso Portuguese
- *hrussą Proto-Germanic
- *hurskaz Proto-Germanic
- *hurskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hurzaną Proto-Germanic
- dyskurs Polish
- socouren Middle English
- coreor Old French
- discurs Catalan, Valencian
- diskurso Ido
- discours Middle French
- discursif Middle French
- occurrence Middle French
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- *korzō Proto-Italic
- discuars Dalmatian
- recur
- cursus
- curule
- recurse
- parkour
- reoccur
- occurrent
- incursive
- discourse
- recursively
- recursivity
- discursively
- discursivity
- reoccurrence
- undiscursive
- nondiscursive
- discursiveness
- antidiscursive
- metadiscursive
- cyberdiscursive
- microdiscursive
- macrodiscursive
- interdiscursive
- transdiscursive
- interdiscursively
- interdiscursivity
- counterdiscursive