English → Latin
“concourse” in Latin
concurrōto run with others, flock together; to meet, clash, dash together, strike one another; to take refugeconcursātiōa disorderly motion, convergence, or meeting, especially of people; a skirmish of lightly armed soldiers; roving or itinconcursiōconcurrence, juxtaposition (of inanimate objects); symplocestēllaa star; (poetic) a constellation; a star shape, a figure of a star; a bright point on a precious stone
The English word concourse itself goes back to Latin currō, through concursus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
concourse
concursus: concursatio: concursio (a meeting together, as act, in general; e.g., of the stars, stellarum: the frequent concourse of vowels, crebra concrusio vocalium): concursus (a coming into contact or clashing together, denoting a state, as well of bodily objects as of soldiers in combat, and in general, of fatal accidents calamitatum). ☞ conventus, in this meaning, is only met with in Sen., N. Qu., 7, 12, 3 (conventus duarum stellarum); in Golden age it is = meeting (in concreto); i.e. assembly.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for concourse?
- The usual Latin words for “concourse” are concurrō, concursātiō, concursiō; also stēlla. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.