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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμῐκῠ́κλῐον (hēmikúklion, “semicircle”), substantive of ἡμῐκῠ́κλῐος (hēmikúklios, “semicircular”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hēmicyclium n (genitive hēmicycliī or hēmicyclī); second declension
- half circle, semicircle
61 CE – c. 112 CE,
Pliny the Younger,
Epistulae 5.6.33:
- Rectus hic hippodromi limes in extrema parte hemicyclio frangitur mutatque faciem
- Here, the straight boundary of the hippodrome is broken and changes its appearance at the far end with a semicircular shape
- Synonym: hēmicyclus
- semicircular recess with seats
- semicircular public place furnished with rows of seats for learned discussions
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
Lives of the Grammarians 17:
- Statuam habet Praeneste in superiore fori parte circa hemicyclium
- It has a statue in Praeneste, in the upper part of the forum, around the semicircular area
- semicircular kind of sundial
c. 15 BCE,
Vitruvius,
De architectura 9.8.1:
- Hemicyclium excavatum ex quadrato ad enclimaque succisum Berosus Chaldaeus dicitur invenisse
- The excavated semicircular sundial, shaped from a square to a sloping form, is said to have been invented by the Chaldean Berosus
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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