circum-
See also: circum
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circum-
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prefix meaning "around"
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circum-
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Combining form of circum (“round about”, “in a circle around”, adverb and preposition).
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /kir.kum/, [kɪrkʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kum/, [t͡ʃirkum]
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circum-
- circum- (round, about)
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- Derivations of this suffix frequently occur divisim.
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- “circum III”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circum-” on page 318/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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circum-
- circum- (around)
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Circum- with a hyphen is used before M, N, H and vowels, otherwise circun- with no hyphen is used.