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Recur

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to occur again periodically or repeatedly
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Stage 1 of 2
recurrere
Latin · ancient
"to run back again"
to run back again, from re- (back) and currere (to run)
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Stage 2 of 2
recur
English · 1500s
"to happen again periodically or repeatedly"
settled as the English word for happening again periodically
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