curro

• cuar, currar, currer

From Latin currere.

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, editors, 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

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “curro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “curro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “curro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “curro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Latin currus (“chariot”), from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), derived from *ḱers- (“to run”).
Cognate with English horse, and Welsh car (“car”). Doublet of carro.

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

curro m (plural curri)

1. (archaic, literal and figurative) carriage, chariot

   Synonyms: carro, cocchio

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Poi, procedendo di mio sguardo il curro,
     vidine un’altra come sangue rossa,
     mostrando un’oca bianca più che burro.

     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 *ḱr̥s-é-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).^[1]

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊr.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkur.ro]

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

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

     Caelum, nōn animum mūtant, quī trāns mare currunt.

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

2. (intransitive) to hurry, hasten, speed

   Synonyms: ruō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, prōripiō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō

   Antonyms: retardō, moror, cū̆nctor, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō

3. (intransitive) to move, travel, proceed
4. (transitive, of a race, journey, with accusative) to run
5. (transitive, with accusative) to 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• curro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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)
    

curro

1. first-person singular present indicative of currar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuro/ [ˈku.ro]
• Rhymes: -uro
• Syllabification: cu‧rro

Deverbal from currar.

curro m (plural curros)

1. (colloquial, Spain) job, work

   Synonym: trabajo

   Voy al curro. ― I’m going to work.

2. (Cuba, Mexico) Andalusian immigrant living in America
3. (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) scammy or dishonest job; a fake activity or service to earn money from the clients or taxes with little or no effort

   Synonym: robo

Perhaps from Curro, nickname of Francisco.^[1]

curro m (plural curros)

1. (Asturias, Galicia, León, Palencia, colloquial) duck, drake

   Synonym: pato

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

1. (colloquial, Spain) handsome, good looking

   Synonym: majo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

curro

1. first-person singular present indicative of currar

• “curro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024