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co-occur en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- English occur English co-occur From co- + occur.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To occur together.
   • For all of the taxonomies studied, there was a level of abstraction at which all of these factors co-occurred.
   • The lexicon or dictionary in a language is then the set of word forms and idiomatic expressions—common sets of words that co-occur often—each with a meaning (the semantics). 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2:

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