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Portuguese
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin circumscrībere.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cir‧cuns‧cre‧ver
Verb
circunscrever (first-person singular present circunscrevo, first-person singular preterite circunscrevi, past participle circunscrito)
- (transitive) to circumscribe; to encircle (draw a line around; encircle)
- Synonym: circular
- (transitive) to circumscribe; to restrict (limit narrowly)
- Synonyms: delimitar, restringir
- (transitive, geometry) to circumscribe (draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)
Conjugation
Further reading
- “circunscrever”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “circunscrever”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “circunscrever” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “circunscrever”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “circunscrever”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “circunscrever”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025