circumscriptio

Latin

Etymology

From circumscribō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kir.kumˈskriːp.ti.oː/, [kɪrkũːˈs̠kriːpt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃir.kumˈskrip.t͡si.o/, [t͡ʃirkumˈskript̪͡s̪io]

Noun

circumscrīptiō f (genitive circumscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. circle, circumference
2. boundary, outline, contour
3. cheating, fraud

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	circumscrīptiō	circumscrīptiōnēs
Genitive	circumscrīptiōnis	circumscrīptiōnum
Dative	circumscrīptiōnī	circumscrīptiōnibus
Accusative	circumscrīptiōnem	circumscrīptiōnēs
Ablative	circumscrīptiōne	circumscrīptiōnibus
Vocative	circumscrīptiō	circumscrīptiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: circumscripció
• → English: circumscription
• → French: circonscription
• → Galician: circunscrición
• → Italian: circoscrizione
• → Portuguese: circunscrição
• → Romanian: circumscripție
• → Spanish: circunscripción

References

• “circumscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circumscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• circumscriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.