currens
See also: Currens
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of currō (“I run”).
Participle
currēns (genitive currentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- running
- hurrying, hastening, speeding
- moving, travelling, proceeding
- travelling through, traversing
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | currēns | currentēs | currentia | ||
Genitive | currentis | currentium | |||
Dative | currentī | currentibus | |||
Accusative | currentem | currēns | currentēs currentīs | currentia | |
Ablative | currente currentī1 | currentibus | |||
Vocative | currēns | currentēs | currentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
- currentia
Descendants
- Catalan: corrent
- English: current, currency
- French: courant
- Galician: corrente
- Italian: corrente
- Portuguese: corrente
- Romanian: curent
- Spanish: corriente
References
- currens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an easy, fluent style: expedita et facile currens oratio
- an easy, fluent style: expedita et facile currens oratio