circonlocution
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin circumlocūtiōnem. By surface analysis, circon- + locution.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]circonlocution f (plural circonlocutions)
Further reading
[edit]- “circonlocution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.