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Latin
Etymology
Possibly from circum- (“around”) + -dō/-dere (“put”) subsequently remodelled to circum- + dō/dāre (“give”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
circumdō (present infinitive circumdare, perfect active circumdedī, supine circumdatum); first conjugation, irregular
- to surround, enclose, encircle
- Synonyms: circumveniō, circumeō, circumsistō, claudō, obsideō, assideō, circumsaepiō, stīpō, complector, amplector, saepiō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “circumdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumdo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-dō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 175