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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κίρκιος (kírkios), a derivation of circus.
Noun
circius m (genitive circiī or circī); second declension
- a west-northwest wind
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “circius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circius 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)
- circius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “circius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 167 Nr. 193
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “circius”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 123a