Etymograph

English

transcurrence

Transcurrence comes from Latin transcurrens.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtranscurrens
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1858transcurrence

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtranscurrens
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1858transcurrence

Earliest quotation: 1858, Sir Willoughby Francis Wade, Observations on Diphtheritis: “This condition results probably quite as much from the…”

Today it means

noun A roving here and there; movement.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin transcurrens / transcurrence