Currit

Currit is a Latin verb form meaning “he runs” or “it runs.” It is the third-person singular present indicative active of curro, the verb meaning “to run.” In classical Latin, currit is commonly found in narrative and descriptive passages to indicate ongoing action in the present.

Curro has irregular aspects and a set of principal parts that are often cited as curro, currere, cucurri, cursus. From these parts, the present indicative is built on the stem curr-, yielding curro, curris, currit, currimus, curritis, currunt. The imperfect uses the extending form currebam, currebas, currebat, currebamus, currebatis, currebant; the future includes forms such as curam, curēs, curēt, curēmus, curētis, curent.

Usage in sentences is straightforward: Marcus currit ad forum, meaning “Marcus runs to the forum.” The form currit also appears in a wide range of Latin texts, including poetry, history, and rhetoric, where it conveys present action or general statements.

Derived and related terms often cited in discussions of Latin influence include words formed from the root curr- such as current (from currens, the present participle of currere) and curriculum (from cursus, “course”). The Latin phrase cursus honorum, meaning “course of offices,” is a well-known historical term that uses the same root.