The story
- Latin · derived fromoccurrō“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”
- Middle French · borrowed fromoccurrer
- English todayoccur
Originally "meet (in argument)", borrowed from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurrō (“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”) from prefix ob- (“against”) + verb currō (“run, hurry, move”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.