currentia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →currens, (gen.), currentis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
current;
acc. pl. (n.)nom. pl. (n.)voc. pl. (n.) - 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. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...rectum inmissa firmamenti loco, alia in orbem currentia ex densorara, qua minora animalia, in quorum perniciem illa tenduntur..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...capillorum retro flexerat, supercilia usque ad malarum scripturam currentia et rursus confinio luminum paene permixta, oculi clariores stellis..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...mellaque decussit foliis ignemque remouit et passim riuis currentia uina repressit, ut uarias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim..."
