circulus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkir.ku.lus/, [ˈkɪrkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ku.lus/, [ˈt͡ʃirkulus]
Noun
circulus m (genitive circulī); second declension
- circle (geometric figure)
- An orbit (circular path)
- A ring, hoop
- A necklace, chain
- A company, social gathering, group
- (Medieval) A calendrical cycle
- Huius sexto anno primus Dionisi circulus inchoat
- In the sixth year of which [reign], the first cycle of Dionysius begins. — Bede, Chronica Minora
- Huius sexto anno primus Dionisi circulus inchoat
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | circulus | circulī |
Genitive | circulī | circulōrum |
Dative | circulō | circulīs |
Accusative | circulum | circulōs |
Ablative | circulō | circulīs |
Vocative | circule | circulī |
Related terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: circol
- Friulian: cercli
- Italian: cerchio
- Mozarabic: čérko
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: cerclo
- Old French: cercle
- Old Occitan: cercle, sercle, selcle
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Portuguese: cercho
- Romanian: cerc
- Sardinian: chìlciu
- Sicilian: circhiu, chirchiu
- → Maltese: ċirku
- Venetian: cercio, sercio, sércio
- → Afrikaans: sirkel
- → Albanian: qarkull
- → Asturian: círculu
- → Basque: zirkulu
- → Proto-Brythonic:
- → Catalan: cèrcol
- → Danish: cirkel
- → Dutch: cirkel
- → English: circle
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: sirkil
- → Friulian: circul
- → Galician: círculo
- → German: Zirkel
- → Italian: circolo
- → Limburgish: cirkel
- → Norwegian: sirkel
- → Old Irish: circul
- → Portuguese: círculo
- → Romanian: circ
- → Sardinian: círculu, tzírculu
- → Scots: circle
- → Spanish: círculo
- → Catalan: círcol
- → Swedish: cirkel
References
- “circulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circulus 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)
- circulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.