currens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →currens, (gen.), currentis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
current;
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (all)voc. sg. (all) - Entry →curro, currere, cucurri, cursus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
run/trot/gallop, hurry/hasten/speed, move/travel/proceed/flow swiftly/quickly;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- T
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...expedis quid siet quod me per urbem currens quaerebas modo. ACAN. Tu quidem ex ore orationem mi eripis..." - T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...clivom, postidea ad pistores dabo, ut ibi cruciere currens. asta ut descendam nunciam in proclivi, quamquam nequam..." - P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...agere ut liceat per silentium, ne semper servo' currens, iratus senex, edax parasitu', sycophanta autem inpudens, avaru' leno..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...armis: 80Pompeium exhaustae praebenda ad gramina terrae,quae currens obtriuit eques gradibusque citatisungula frondentem discussit cornea campum.belliger attonsis..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quia sol idem sub terras atque superne imparibus currens amfractibus aetheris oras partit et in partis non aequas..." - L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...timores uincetque sui fratris habenas curuo breuius limite currens. Ibit in unum congesta sinum turba deorum..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Parnetho subiecta iacent, quae Thriasiis uallibus amnis rapida currens uerberat unda; scandite colles semper canos niue Riphaea..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...illas, has per arentis plagas tepidis Hydaspes gemmifer currens aquis, nomenque terris qui dedit Baetis suis Hesperia pulsans..."
