concursus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of concurrō.

Participle

concursus (feminine concursa, neuter concursum); first/second-declension participle

1. flocked
2. concurred
3. coincided

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	concursus	concursa	concursum		concursī	concursae	concursa
Genitive	concursī	concursae	concursī		concursōrum	concursārum	concursōrum
Dative	concursō		concursō		concursīs
Accusative	concursum	concursam	concursum		concursōs	concursās	concursa
Ablative	concursō	concursā	concursō		concursīs
Vocative	concurse	concursa	concursum		concursī	concursae	concursa

Etymology 2

From concurrō (“I run together, flock”) +‎ -tus (noun formation suffix). Compare concursiō derived from the same verb.

Noun

concursus m (genitive concursūs); fourth declension

1. a convergence of people; an assembly

   Synonyms: concilium, cōntiō, congressus, coetus, coitiō, conventus

2. an uproar, tumult

   Synonyms: seditio, turba, inquies, tumultus, inquiētūdō, perculsus, fragor

3. an attack, charge, an assault (of troops)

   Synonyms: impetus, invāsiō, assultus, aggressiō, impressiō, appetītus, occursĭo, oppugnātiō, incursus, petītiō, incursiō, vīs, ictus, procella

4. a union, conjunction, combination (of objects)

   Synonym: ūniō

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	concursus	concursūs
Genitive	concursūs	concursuum
Dative	concursuī	concursibus
Accusative	concursum	concursūs
Ablative	concursū	concursibus
Vocative	concursus	concursūs

Descendants

• Catalan: concurs
• English: concourse
• French: concours
• Italian: concorso
• Portuguese: concurso
• Romanian: concurs
• Sicilian: cuncursu
• Spanish: concurso

References

• “concursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• concursus 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)
• concursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum