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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of circueō.
Participle
circuitus (feminine circuita, neuter circuitum); first/second-declension participle
- circulated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circuitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Etymology 2
From circueō, alternative form of circumeō (“go around”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
circuitus m (genitive circuitūs); fourth declension
- patrol
- circuit
- revolution (going around)
- cycle, period
- circumlocution
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- Inherited:
- Old Italian: circovito, cercovito (“surrounding wall”) (possibly a phonetically-adapted borrowing)
- Borrowed:
References
- “circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circuitus 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)
- circuitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus