Occur
/əˈkɜːr/noun
To happen or take place; to come to mind.
Did you know?Occur comes from Latin occurrere, a verb built from ob- (“toward”) + currere (“to run”), so its oldest sense was to run up to, meet, or confront someone.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kers-
“to run”
Latin
Latin
currere
“to run”
Latin
Latin
occurrere
“to run up to, meet, encounter; to come into one's mind”
Late Middle English
English
occuren
“to meet, encounter; to happen”
Modern English
English
occur
“to happen; to arise in the mind”