circo

See also: Circo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.ko/

Noun

circo f (plural circos)

1. (colloquial, politics) Clipping of circonscription (“electoral district”).
   • 2024 July 8, Romain Cantenot, “Le RN perd Avignon mais conforte son ancrage”, in La Provence, page 7:

     Une circo de perdue, une de gagnée, et un pari manqué pour le RN, qui espérait décrocher la dernière des circonscriptions qui lui avait échappé en 2022 pour s’arroger les cinq fauteuils vauclusiens dans l’Hémicycle.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus. Doublet of the now-obsolete cerco (“circle; circus”), which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ko/
• Rhymes: -irko
• Hyphenation: cìr‧co

Noun

circo m (plural circhi)

1. circus
2. corrie

Related terms

• cerchio

Anagrams

• croci, ricco

Latin

Etymology

From circus (“circle”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkir.koː/, [ˈkɪrkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ko/, [ˈt͡ʃirko]

Verb

circō (present infinitive circāre, perfect active circāvī, supine circātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to traverse, go about
2. to wander through

Conjugation

Conjugation of circō (first conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	circō	circās	circat	circāmus	circātis	circant
	imperfect	circābam	circābās	circābat	circābāmus	circābātis	circābant
	future	circābō	circābis	circābit	circābimus	circābitis	circābunt
	perfect	circāvī	circāvistī	circāvit	circāvimus	circāvistis	circāvērunt, circāvēre
	pluperfect	circāveram	circāverās	circāverat	circāverāmus	circāverātis	circāverant
	future perfect	circāverō	circāveris	circāverit	circāverimus	circāveritis	circāverint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	circem	circēs	circet	circēmus	circētis	circent
	imperfect	circārem	circārēs	circāret	circārēmus	circārētis	circārent
	perfect	circāverim	circāverīs	circāverit	circāverīmus	circāverītis	circāverint
	pluperfect	circāvissem	circāvissēs	circāvisset	circāvissēmus	circāvissētis	circāvissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	circā	—	—	circāte	—
	future	—	circātō	circātō	—	circātōte	circantō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		circāre	circāvisse	circātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		circāns	—	circātūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		circandī	circandō	circandum	circandō	circātum	circātū

Derived terms

• circitō
• circātor

Descendants

• Asturian: cercar
• Catalan: cercar
• Franco-Provençal: chèrchiér
• Friulian: cercjâ, cerčhâ
• Italian: cercare
• Neapolitan: cercare
• Occitan: cercar
• Old French: cerchier, cercer, cercher, cergier, cerquer, chercher, sercheer, serchere, serchier; secher, sericher
  • Middle French: chercher, cercher
    • French: chercher
  • → Middle English: serchen, cerchen, scherchen, seerchen, seergyn, serce, serche, serchyn, serge, sergen
    • English: search
    • Scots: sairch
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cercar
  • Galician: cercar
  • Portuguese: cercar (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: cerca, cercare, încerca, încercare
• Romansch: tschertgar, tschercar, tscharcar, tschercher
• Sardinian: chilcare, chircare, chiscare, cicai, cicari
• Sicilian: circari
• Spanish: cercar
• Venetian: çercar, sercar
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: kërkoj
  • → Esperanto: serĉi

References

• “circo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• circo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• circo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

circo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʁ.ku/ [ˈsih.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʁ.ku/ [ˈsih.ku]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾ.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʁ.ku/ [ˈsiχ.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɻ.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾ.ku/

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Noun

circo m (plural circos)

1. circus

Related terms

• círculo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus. Compare cerco, which is an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθiɾko/ [ˈθiɾ.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsiɾko/ [ˈsiɾ.ko]
• Rhymes: -iɾko
• Syllabification: cir‧co

Noun

circo m (plural circos)

1. circus (a travelling company of performers)
2. (historical) circus (a building for chariot-racing in Ancient Rome)

Derived terms

• monto un circo y me crecen los enanos

 

Related terms

• círculo

 

Further reading

• “circo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014