circumcirca
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin circumcircā.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
circumcirca
- (obsolete) about, roughly, approximately
- Synonyms: approssimativamente, circa, più o meno, pressappoco
- Antonyms: certamente, esattamente, precisamente, sicuramente
- 1787, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Don Giovanni (libretto), West Press (2013), page 79:
- È un'oretta circumcirca./ Che con lei girando vo
- For approximately an hour / I've been wandering about with along with her
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From circum- (“circum-”) + circā (“around, about”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kir.kunˈkir.kaː/, [kɪrkʊŋˈkɪrkäː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kunˈt͡ʃir.ka/, [t͡ʃirkun̠ʲˈt͡ʃirkä]
Adverb edit
circumcircā (not comparable)
Descendants edit
- Italian: circumcirca
References edit
- “circumcirca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circumcirca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- circumcirca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.