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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of circumfundō.
Participle
circumfūsus (feminine circumfūsa, neuter circumfūsum); first/second-declension participle
- surrounded (with fluid)
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 1.10–14:
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; - No Titan as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands;
- crowded around
- overwhelmed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “circumfusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circumfusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the atmosphere: aer terrae circumiectus or circumfusus