succurro
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sukˈkur.roː/, [s̠ʊkˈkʊrːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sukˈkur.ro/, [sukˈkurːo]
Verb
succurrō (present infinitive succurrere, perfect active succurrī, supine succursum); third conjugation
- (with dative) I help, aid.
- Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso?
- Can you help me please?
- Hic locus est ubi mortui gaudent succurrere vivis
- This place is where the dead delight in helping the living.
- Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso?
- (with dative) I run to help, to run to the aid of
- "Succurrit inimicus illi Vorenus"
- Vorenus, hostile to this man, runs for help.
- "Succurrit inimicus illi Vorenus"
- I run beneath, go under; to undergo.
- (of ideas) I come to mind.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: soccorrere
- Occitan: secórrer, socórrer
- Portuguese: socorrer
- Spanish: socorrer
References
- “succurro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “succurro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- succurro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- an idea strikes me: illud succurrit mihi
- an idea strikes me: illud succurrit mihi