occur
English
/əˈkɜː/, /əˈkɝ/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To happen or take place.
- (intransitive) To present or offer itself.
- (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
- (intransitive) To be present or found.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French occurrer derived from Latin occurrō (run to meet, run against, present itself, befall) 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
- co-occur English
- coöccur English
- cursus English
- curule English
- incursive English
- occurable English
- occurrable English
- occurrent English
- parkour English
- recur English
- recurse English
- recursively English
- recursivity English
- reoccur English
- reoccurrence 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
- occurrō, occurrere, occurro Latin
- occursio Latin
- percurro Latin
- recurrens Latin
- recurrentia Latin
- recurro Latin
- recursiō Latin
- recursus Latin
- succurrēre Latin
- viam Latin
- steppicursore Italian
- ἐπίκουρος Ancient Greek
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥sós Proto-Indo-European
- *hrussą Proto-Germanic
- *hurskaz Proto-Germanic
- *hurskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hurzaną Proto-Germanic
- socouren Middle English
- coreor Old French
- occurrence Middle French
- occurrer Middle French
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- *korzō Proto-Italic