English → Latin
“cursitor” in Latin
brevisshort, small, little, narrow; brief, short; short, low, shallowlevislight, not heavy; easy to digest; quick, swift, fleet, nimble, rapidcursimquickly, swiftly, hastily, speedilystrictimsuperficially; briefly, cursorily, summarilypercurrōto run, hasten or pass through, traverse, pass or run over or along; stroke; to wind or bend around; to mention briefly pervolōto wish greatly
The English word cursitor itself goes back to Latin cursor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cursitor
magister scriniorum (later only): CURSORILY, breviter (briefly): leviter (lightly): cursim (in running over anything): strictim (superficially, briefly): negligenter: parum diligenter (with little attention bestowed on it, inaccurately, opposed to diligenter, e.g., to work, to do anything, to write, etc.). To go through anything or read anything over cursorily, percurrere (also with the addition of oculo veloci): pervolvere: pervolutare (i. e., merely to turn the leaves over); also ad extremum revolvere or strictim attingere (to skim anything over, or to run through it; e.g., librum, a book): to read the annals over (or go through them) cursorily only, paginas in annalibus percurrere (Liv. 9, 18, med.): to look at papers cursorily, scripta lectione transcurrere (Quint. 10, 5, 3): to look over some books (or examine them) cursorily, libros cursim transire (i. e., at the bookseller’s, Gell., 9, 4, p. in.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cursitor?
- The usual Latin words for “cursitor” are brevis, levis, cursim; also strictim, percurrō, pervolō. 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.