circonvoisin
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From circon- + voisin, perhaps based on, if not borrowed from, Latin circumvicinus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
circonvoisin (feminine circonvoisine, masculine plural circonvoisins, feminine plural circonvoisines)
- (literary [1]) surrounding, located around, circumjacent
- 1837, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume II, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- Tout cela se sut et se répandit dans les villages circonvoisins.
- All of that became known and spread into the neighboring villages.
References[edit]
- “circonvoisin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “circonvoisin” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
Middle French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
circonvoisin m (feminine singular circonvoisine, masculine plural circonvoisins, feminine plural circonvoisines)
- neighboring, located around, circumjacent.