English → Latin
“occur” in Latin
accidōto fall down, upon, at or near; descend; to happen (to), take place, occur, befallincidōto fall or drop; to fall upon, meet, come upon (by chance), happen on, fall in with; to fall upon, attack, assaultēveniōto happen, occur; to come forth; to happen to, befall (someone)contingōto touch on all sides, take hold of, come into contact with; to reach (by moving), attain to, come to, arrive at, meet winterveniōto intervene, come between; to interrupt; to occur, happenintercidōto fall between; to occur meanwhile, happen; to be lost or forgotten, fall to the ground, perish, go to ruingerōto carry, bear; to manage, conduct (e.g., one's affairs); to rule, governexsistōto be, exist; to appear, arise, emerge; to becomeinveniōto find; to discover, find out, learn; to come upon, meet withreperiōto find, find out, learn, realise, ascertain, discover, invent
The English word occur itself goes back to Latin currō, through occurrō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
occur
To happen, accidere; incidere; evenire; contingere; intervenire (Cic.); intercidere (Caes.); geri (to be going on): exsistere (of events which break out suddenly, as seditions, wars, etc.).
To come under observation, be met with (as a passage in a book, etc.), esse; exstari; inveniri; reperiri: a passage occurs, phrases occur, etc., locus occurrit; locutiones, sententiae occurrunt apud scriptorem (but it is better to use inveniri, reperiri, legi; for occurrere contains the idea of something accidental or fortuitous. ☞ Avoid, in this sense, obvium esse, and obvenire. Vid: Frotscher ad Quint., 10, 1, 19).
To present itself to one’s mind, in mentem mihi aliquid venit; mihi in opinionem aliquid venit (as an opinion, or supposition): subit animum cogitatio, in mentem or in cogitationem mihi incidit aliquid (presents itself to my mind): mihi, or animo, or in mentem occurrit aliquid, mihi succurrit aliquid (enters my mind): subit recordatio, recordor or reminiscor alicujus rei, recursat aliquid animo (I remember a thing): all kinds of things occur to my mind, variae cogitationes animum meum commovent: to write, to speak just what occurs to one, quod or quidquid in buccam venerit, scribere, (Cic., Att. 1, 12), garrire (Cic., Att., 12, 1), loqui (Mart., 12, 24, 5).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for occur?
- The usual Latin words for “occur” are accidō, incidō, ēveniō; also contingō, interveniō, intercidō. 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.