circo
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circus. Compare the now obsolete old Italian cerco (“circle”)[1], which may have been inherited.
Noun
circo m (plural circhi)
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Latin
Etymology
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
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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
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Noun
circo m (plural circos)
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circus. Compare cerco, which is an inherited doublet.
Noun
circo m (plural circos)
- circus (a travelling company of performers)
- (historical) circus (a building for chariot-racing in Ancient Rome)
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