The principal parts of decurro are given in Whitakker as:
decurro, decurrere, decucurri, decursum
by 501 Latin Verbs as:
decurro, decurrere, decurri, decursum
A couple of website agree with 501 Latin verbs.....
Are they both correct..?
decurri or decucurri
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Re: decurri or decucurri
Here's how Lewis and Short put it:
EDIT: Grammar is a descriptive science: if something exists and makes sense, we have to note it and accept it. It's sad but true, I think we would all prefer to have less forms to think about when learning a language.
EDIT EDIT: I think reduplication in general had a hard time in Latin: consider tuli, the perfect of fero, which originally was reduplicated ( = tetuli, you can find vestiges of it in the two t's of rettulit from refero), or consider spondeo, which sometimes loses its reduplication. There are probably other and better examples.
Both forms, in other words, exist, and the reduplicated form seems to be classical. In Vergil, the unreduplicated form might be avoided metri causa, since decucurr- forms a cretic that doesn't fit his dactyls. Livius uses both forms, perhaps just because ... they both existed?dē-curro, cŭcurri or curri (cf.: decucurrit, Caes. B. G. 2, 21; Tac. A. 2, 7; Suet. Ner. 11: decucurrerunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 7; Petr. 64, 3: decucurrerat, Liv. 1, 12: decucurrisse, id. 25, 17; also, decurrerunt, id. 26, 51; 38, 8: decurrēre, Verg. A. 4, 153; 11, 189: decurrisset, Liv. 33, 26), cursum, 3,
EDIT: Grammar is a descriptive science: if something exists and makes sense, we have to note it and accept it. It's sad but true, I think we would all prefer to have less forms to think about when learning a language.
EDIT EDIT: I think reduplication in general had a hard time in Latin: consider tuli, the perfect of fero, which originally was reduplicated ( = tetuli, you can find vestiges of it in the two t's of rettulit from refero), or consider spondeo, which sometimes loses its reduplication. There are probably other and better examples.
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Re: decurri or decucurri
Many thanks.