Main Entry: re·cur

Pronunciation: \ri-ˈkər\

Function: intransitive verb

Inflected Form(s): re·curred; re·cur·ring

Etymology: Middle English recurren to return, from Latin recurrere, literally, to run back, from re- + currere to run — more at car

Date: 1529

1 : to have recourse : resort
2 : to go back in thought or discourse <on recurring to my letters of that date — Thomas Jefferson>
3 a : to come up again for consideration b : to come again to mind
4 : to occur again after an interval : occur time after time <the cancer recurred>

— re·cur·rence \-ˈkər-ən(t)s, -ˈkə-rən(t)s\ noun