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curro

See also: curró

Dalmatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō.

Verb

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curro

  1. to run

Galician

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Curro do Barbanza, a corral used for gathering and marking semi-wild horses once a year

Etymology

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Attested in local Latin documents since the 10th century.[1] Perhaps from Latin curro (“cart”) or from Latin curriculum.[2] Cognate with Spanish corro.

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Noun

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curro m (plural curros)

  1. corral, round enclosure for livestock
  2. enclosure, wall
    • 1473, M. Romaní Martínez, M. P. Rodríguez Suárez, editors, Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira, Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 50:
      et outro marco esta no monte a su a mota da torre, et outro ao poonbar da torre, et outro esta na carreyra a sobre lo curro da torre
      and another boundary stone is in the hill, by the mottle of the tower, and another at the tower's dovecote, and another at the road over the tower's wall
  3. corner

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ "curro" in Galleciae Monumenta Historica.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “corral”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin currus (“chariot”), from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), derived from *ḱers- (“to run”).
Cognate with English horse, and Welsh car (“car”). Doublet of carro.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkur.ro/
  • Rhymes: -urro
  • Hyphenation: cùr‧ro

Noun

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curro m (plural curri)

  1. (archaic, literal and figurative) carriage, chariot
    Synonyms: carro, cocchio
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Inferno‎[1], lines 58–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Poi, procedendo di mio sguardo il curro,
      vidine un’altra come sangue rossa,
      mostrando un’oca bianca più che burro.
      Proceeding then the current of my sight, another of them saw I, red as blood, display a goose more white than butter is.
  2. a cylinder or roller used to move heavy objects
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Further reading

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  • curro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *korzō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥s-é-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).[1]

Cognate with currus, carrus (via Gaulish), English horse.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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currō (present infinitive currere, perfect active cucurrī, supine cursum); third conjugation

  1. (intransitive) to run
    • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.11.27:
      Caelum, nōn animum mūtant, quī trāns mare currunt.
      They change the sky, not their souls, those who run across the sea.
  2. (intransitive) to hurry, hasten, speed
    Synonyms: ruō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, prōripiō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō
    Antonyms: retardō, moror, cūnctor, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō
  3. (intransitive) to move, travel, proceed
  4. (transitive, of a race, journey, with accusative) to run
  5. (transitive, with accusative) to travel through, traverse, run

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of currō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present currō curris currit currimus curritis currunt
imperfect currēbam currēbās currēbat currēbāmus currēbātis currēbant
future curram currēs curret currēmus currētis current
perfect cucurrī cucurristī cucurrit cucurrimus cucurristis cucurrērunt,
cucurrēre
pluperfect cucurreram cucurrerās cucurrerat cucurrerāmus cucurrerātis cucurrerant
future perfect cucurrerō cucurreris cucurrerit cucurrerimus cucurreritis cucurrerint
passive present curror curreris,
currere 		curritur currimur curriminī curruntur
imperfect currēbar currēbāris,
currēbāre 		currēbātur currēbāmur currēbāminī currēbantur
future currar currēris,
currēre 		currētur currēmur currēminī currentur
perfect cursus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect cursus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect cursus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present curram currās currat currāmus currātis currant
imperfect currerem currerēs curreret currerēmus currerētis currerent
perfect cucurrerim cucurrerīs cucurrerit cucurrerīmus cucurrerītis cucurrerint
pluperfect cucurrissem cucurrissēs cucurrisset cucurrissēmus cucurrissētis cucurrissent
passive present currar currāris,
currāre 		currātur currāmur currāminī currantur
imperfect currerer currerēris,
currerēre 		currerētur currerēmur currerēminī currerentur
perfect cursus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect cursus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — curre — — currite —
future — curritō curritō — curritōte curruntō
passive present — currere — — curriminī —
future — curritor curritor — — curruntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives currere cucurrisse cursūrum esse currī cursum esse cursum īrī
participles currēns — cursūrus — cursus currendus,
currundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
currendī currendō currendum currendō cursum cursū

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “currō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 157-8

Further reading

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  • “curro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • curro 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)
  • curro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to run a foot-race: stadium currere (Off. 3. 10. 42)
    • (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
    • (ambiguous) to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
    • (ambiguous) to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo
    • (ambiguous) to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri)
    • (ambiguous) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)

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Verb

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curro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of currar

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkuro/ [ˈku.ro]
  • Rhymes: -uro
  • Syllabification: cu‧rro

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from currar.

Noun

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curro m (plural curros)

  1. (colloquial, Spain) job, work
    Synonym: trabajo
    Voy al curro. ― I’m going to work.
  2. (Cuba, Mexico) Andalusian immigrant living in America
  3. (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) scammy or dishonest job; a fake activity or service to earn money from the clients or taxes with little or no effort
    Synonym: robo

Etymology 2

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Perhaps from Curro, nickname of Francisco.[1]

Noun

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curro m (plural curros)

  1. (colloquial, regional, Spain) duck, drake
    Synonym: pato

Adjective

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curro (feminine curra, masculine plural curros, feminine plural curras)

  1. (colloquial, Spain) handsome, good looking
    Synonym: majo

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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curro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of currar

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ “curro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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