concourir

Borrowed from Latin concurrere, based on French courir.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ku.ʁiʁ/

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concourir

1. (intransitive) to compete, to contend
2. (followed by the preposition à) to contribute, to play a role in
   • 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante‎^[1], page 1:

     Parmi les éléments divers, appelés à concourir à la formation d'une œuvre ornementale, la plante est certainement celui de ces éléments qui poss��de le plus de variété dans la forme, qui se prête le mieux aux combinaisons décoratives, qui nous offre le plus de ressources, en un mot.

     Among the various elements called to contribute to the creation of an ornamental work, the plant is certainly the one that possesses the greatest variety of form, lends itself best to decorative combinations, and—in a word—offers us the most resources.

3. (mathematics) to converge

This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.

• concours

• “concourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012