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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of circumspiciō
Participle
circumspectus (feminine circumspecta, neuter circumspectum); first/second-declension participle
- surveyed, looked around or over
- well-considered, prudent, as in the appellations circumspectus vir (prudent man), circumspectus magister
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “circumspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumspectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- after mature deliberation: omnibus rebus circumspectis