occurrere
Occurrere is a Latin verb with senses centered on turning toward, meeting, and arising in mind. The core meaning is “to run to meet; to encounter,” and it also functions in the sense “to occur, to happen,” especially in impersonal constructions with a dative of the person affected (for example, something occurs to someone). In the sense “to occur to someone,” the verb is often used with the dative pronoun or noun indicating the person for whom the thought arises.
Etymology traces occurrere to a combination of a toward-facing prefix derived from ob- or a variant oc-
Morphology and usage patterns: occurrere is a third-conjugation verb, so its present tense forms follow the
In classical Latin, occurrere appears in varied literary contexts, from narrative descriptions of physical meetings to
See also: occur, accidere, ideas arising in the mind, Latin verb conjugation.