concurrence
UK[kənˈkʌrəns]US[kənˈkɜːrəns]
n
The fact of two or more events or circumstances happening or existing at the same time.
n
Agreement or consistency between two or more things.
Morpheme Breakdown
con
curr
ence
con
together
curr
run
ence
noun suffix
Etymology
The word concurrence is built from Latin components that literally describe a "running together". The prefix "con-" signifies union, while the root "-curr-" evokes the image of movement or flow. This concrete imagery evolved into the abstract concept of events or circumstances meeting or coinciding in time. Finally, the suffix "-ence" nominalizes the action, forming a term that denotes the state or instance of simultaneous occurrence or agreement.
Analysis
Structure: con (together) + curr (run) + ence (noun suffix)
- con: A Latin prefix meaning "together, with".
- curr: A Latin root from the verb "currere", meaning "to run".
- ence: A Latin-derived noun suffix indicating a state, quality, or action.
Examples
The concurrence of these two independent studies strengthens the validity of the findings.
The project cannot proceed without the concurrence of all department heads.
By a strange concurrence, they both arrived at the same conclusion from entirely different data sets.