curro

• cuar, currar, currer

From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō.

curro

1. to run

Attested in local Latin documents since the 10th century.[1] Perhaps from Latin curro (“cart”) or from Latin curriculum.[2] Cognate with Spanish corro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuro̝/

curro m (plural curros)

1. corral, round enclosure for livestock
2. enclosure, wall
   • 1473, M. Romaní Martínez & M. P. Rodríguez Suárez (eds.), Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 50:

     et outro marco esta no monte a su a mota da torre, et outro ao poonbar da torre, et outro esta na carreyra a sobre lo curro da torre

     and another boundary stone is in the hill, by the mottle of the tower, and another at the tower's dovecote, and another at the road over the tower's wall

3. corner

• “curro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “curro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “curro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “curro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin currus (“chariot”), from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), derived from *ḱers- (“to run”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkur.ro/
• Rhymes: -urro
• Stress: cùrro
• Hyphenation: cur‧ro

curro m (plural curri)

1. (archaic, literally and figuratively) carriage, chariot

   Synonyms: carro, cocchio

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVII, lines 58–63, page 254:

     E com’io riguardando tra lor vegno, ¶ in una borsa gialla vidi azzurro ¶ che d’un leone avea faccia e contegno. ¶ Poi, procedendo di mio sguardo il curro, ¶ vidine un’altra come sangue rossa, ¶ mostrando un’oca bianca più che burro.

     And as I gazing round me come among them, upon a yellow pouch I azure saw that had the face and posture of a lion. Proceeding then the current of my sight, another of them saw I, red as blood, display a goose more white than butter is.

2. a cylinder or roller used to move heavy objects

• correre

• curro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-Italic *korzō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).

Cognate with currus, carrus (via Gaulish), English horse.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.roː/, [ˈkʊr.roː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.ro/

currō (present infinitive currere, perfect active cucurrī, supine cursum); third conjugation

1. (intransitive) I run
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.11.27:

     Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt

     They change the sky, not their souls, those who run across the sea.

2. (intransitive) I hurry, hasten, speed
3. (intransitive) I move, travel, proceed
4. (transitive, of a race, journey, with accusative) I run
5. (transitive, with accusative) I travel through, traverse, run

• curro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• curro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to run a foot-race: stadium currere (Off. 3. 10. 42)
    
  • (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
    
  • (ambiguous) to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
    
  • (ambiguous) to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri)
    
  • (ambiguous) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuro/

curro (feminine singular curra, masculine plural curros, feminine plural curras)

1. (colloquial) handsome, good looking

curro m (plural curros)

1. (colloquial, Spain) work

   Voy al curro. ― I’m going to work.

2. (Cuba, Mexico) Andalusian immigrant living in America
3. (vulgar, Argentina, Uruguay) fraud, rip-off, scam

curro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of currar.

• “curro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.