Etymograph

English

currence

Currence comes from Latin currēns ‘running’, from currō ‘to run’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱers-1‘to run’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱr̥séti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korzō1‘to run’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurrō1‘to run’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurrēns2as currentia‘running’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1854currence2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin currens
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English currence
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1854, The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London: “And the time consumed in discussion will certainly not…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱers-Wiktionary, Latin currens‘to run’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱr̥sétiWiktionary, Latin currensreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korzōWiktionary, Latin currens‘to run’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurrōWiktionary, Latin currens‘to run’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurrēnsWiktionary, English currenceas currentia‘running’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1854currenceWiktionary, English currence. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1854, The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London: “And the time consumed in discussion will certainly not…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- ‘to run’

charge, career, carry, rush, cargo, carrier, hurry, carriage, intercourse, chariot, carousel, recourse, caricature, corral, cursory, hurrah, recursive, carrack, 36 more

through Proto-Italic *korzō ‘to run’

corridor, discourse, courier, concourse, incursion, 20 more

through Latin currō ‘to run’

course, occur, curriculum, precursor, corsair, cursor, incur, concurrent, concur, recurrent, recursion, hussar, succour, recur, 23 more

through Latin currēns ‘running’

courant, 7 more

Today it means

noun The quality of being current (generally circulated and accepted); currency, currentness.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “currence”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin currens. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- / currence

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