percurro

Latin

Etymology

From per- (“through, along; during”) +‎ currō (“run; hurry; travel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /perˈkur.roː/, [pɛrˈkʊrːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /perˈkur.ro/, [perˈkurːo]

Verb

percurrō (present infinitive percurrere, perfect active percucurrī, supine percursum); third conjugation

1. I run, hasten or pass through, traverse, pass or run over or along; stroke.

   Synonyms: mulceō, palpō

2. I wind or bend around.
3. (figuratively) I mention briefly or cursorily.
4. (figuratively) I scan (briefly), look over; review.
5. (figuratively) (of feelings) I run through, penetrate, agitate.

Conjugation

Note that the perfect active indicative can be written as percurrī rather than percucurrī

Conjugation of percurrō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	percurrō	percurris	percurrit	percurrimus	percurritis	percurrunt
	imperfect	percurrēbam	percurrēbās	percurrēbat	percurrēbāmus	percurrēbātis	percurrēbant
	future	percurram	percurrēs	percurret	percurrēmus	percurrētis	percurrent
	perfect	percucurrī	percucurristī	percucurrit	percucurrimus	percucurristis	percucurrērunt, percucurrēre
	pluperfect	percucurreram	percucurrerās	percucurrerat	percucurrerāmus	percucurrerātis	percucurrerant
	future perfect	percucurrerō	percucurreris	percucurrerit	percucurrerimus	percucurreritis	percucurrerint
passive	present	percurror	percurreris, percurrere	percurritur	percurrimur	percurriminī	percurruntur
	imperfect	percurrēbar	percurrēbāris, percurrēbāre	percurrēbātur	percurrēbāmur	percurrēbāminī	percurrēbantur
	future	percurrar	percurrēris, percurrēre	percurrētur	percurrēmur	percurrēminī	percurrentur
	perfect	percursus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	percursus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	percursus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	percurram	percurrās	percurrat	percurrāmus	percurrātis	percurrant
	imperfect	percurrerem	percurrerēs	percurreret	percurrerēmus	percurrerētis	percurrerent
	perfect	percucurrerim	percucurrerīs	percucurrerit	percucurrerīmus	percucurrerītis	percucurrerint
	pluperfect	percucurrissem	percucurrissēs	percucurrisset	percucurrissēmus	percucurrissētis	percucurrissent
passive	present	percurrar	percurrāris, percurrāre	percurrātur	percurrāmur	percurrāminī	percurrantur
	imperfect	percurrerer	percurrerēris, percurrerēre	percurrerētur	percurrerēmur	percurrerēminī	percurrerentur
	perfect	percursus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	percursus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	percurre	—	—	percurrite	—
	future	—	percurritō	percurritō	—	percurritōte	percurruntō
passive	present	—	percurrere	—	—	percurriminī	—
	future	—	percurritor	percurritor	—	—	percurruntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		percurrere	percucurrisse	percursūrum esse	percurrī	percursum esse	percursum īrī
participles		percurrēns	—	percursūrus	—	percursus	percurrendus, percurrundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		percurrendī	percurrendō	percurrendum	percurrendō	percursum	percursū

Derived terms

• percursiō
• percursō

• percursor
• percursus

Related terms

• accurrō
• antecurrō
• circumcurrō
• concurrō

• currō
• dēcurrō
• discurrō
• excurrō

• incurrō
• intercurrō
• occurrō

• percursātiō
• praecurrō
• prōcurrō

• recurrō
• succurrō
• transcurrō

Descendants

• Asturian: percorrer
• English: parkour
• French: parcourir
• Italian: percorrere
• Portuguese: percorrer
• Spanish: percorrer

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to read cursorily: legendo percurrere aliquid