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Latin
Etymology
From circus + -ulus.
Pronunciation
Noun
circulus m (genitive circulī); second declension
- A circle (geometric figure)
- An orbit (circular path)
- A ring, hoop
- A necklace, chain
- A company, social gathering, group
- (Medieval Latin) A calendrical cycle
- Huius sexto anno primus Dionisi circulus inchoat
- In the sixth year of which , the first cycle of Dionysius begins. — Bede, Chronica Minora
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
Learned borrowings:
- → British isles:
- → Germany and environs:
- → Iberia:
- → Italy and environs:
References
Further reading
- “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.