succurro
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sukˈkur.roː/, [s̠ʊkˈkʊrːoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sukˈkur.ro/, [sukˈkurːo]
Verb
succurrō (present infinitive succurrere, perfect active succurrī, supine succursum); third conjugation
- (with dative) I help, aid, succor
- Synonyms: iuvō, adiūtō, adiuvō, foveō, assistō, sublevō, prōficiō, prōsum, adsum
- Antonym: officiō
- Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso?
- Can you help me please?
- Hic locus est ubi mortui gaudent succurrere vivis :
- This place is where the deads delight in helping the livings.
- (with dative) I run to help, to run to the aid of, hasten to assist
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.443-444:
- prōvolat in medium, et magnā ‘succurrite!’ vōce
‘nōn est auxilium flēre’ Metellus ait.- Metellus rushes into [their] midst, and with a loud voice exclaims: “Make haste to help! It is no help to cry.”
(The Temple of Vesta afire, Lucius Caecilius Metellus (consul 251 BC) addresses the Vestal Virgins.)
- Metellus rushes into [their] midst, and with a loud voice exclaims: “Make haste to help! It is no help to cry.”
- prōvolat in medium, et magnā ‘succurrite!’ vōce
- Succurrit inimicus illi Vorenu :
- Vorenus, hostile to this man, runs for help.
- I run beneath, go under; to undergo.
- (of ideas) I come to mind.
Conjugation
Descendants
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an idea strikes me: illud succurrit mihi
- an idea strikes me: illud succurrit mihi
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