circius

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κίρκιος (kírkios), from Κιρκαῖον (Kirkaîon).

Noun

circius m (genitive circiī or circī); second declension

  1. a west-northwest wind

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative circius circiī
genitive circiī
circī1
circiōrum
dative circiō circiīs
accusative circium circiōs
ablative circiō circiīs
vocative circie circiī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Asturian: zarza
  • Galician: zarzo
  • Spanish: cierzo
  • Arabic: شُرْش (šurš), مُشَرَّش (mušarraš, northwest wind)

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