Added 9 October 2026
recur
/ɹɪˈkɜː/ verb
Latin root: recurrō Wiktionary
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Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
- Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.
- Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + currō (“to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)). cognates * Anglo-Norman recurre, recorre (“to have recourse to”) * Catalan recórrer * Italian ricorrer * Old French recourir (Middle French recourir; modern French recourir (“to have recourse to; to run again; to run back”)) * Old Occitan recorre * Portuguese recorrer * Spanish recorrer
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