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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κίρκινος (kírkinos).
Pronunciation
Noun
circinus m (genitive circinī); second declension
- A pair of compasses; a tool for measuring distances or constructing a circle.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “circinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “circinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “circinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin