circa
See also: Circa
EnglishEdit
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PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɜːkə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɝkə/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kə
- Hyphenation: cir‧ca
PrepositionEdit
circa
- Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)
- Julius Caesar visited this area circa 50 BC.
TranslationsEdit
approximately, about, around
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CzechEdit
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- circa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- circa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DutchEdit
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FrenchEdit
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GermanEdit
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Further readingEdit
- “circa” in Duden online
- “circa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “circa” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
ItalianEdit
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LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
A later form for circum, or from circum + eā.
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circā (not comparable)
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circā (+ accusative)
- around; near; about
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 7:
- Circa advenam manifestae reum caedis
- around the stranger accused of open murder
- Circa advenam manifestae reum caedis
- regarding, concerning
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ReferencesEdit
- “circa”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “circa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circa 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)
- circa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- circa in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
Etymology 2Edit
Ultimately related to etymology 1. Sense 4 is only attested in the form cerca(s); see there for more.
NounEdit
circa f (genitive circae); first declension[1][2]
- (Medieval Latin) a patrol, watch
- (Medieval Latin) an episcopal visit
- (Medieval Latin) an inquiry, inquest
- (Medieval Latin) a defensive enclosure, moat
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “2. circa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 180
- ^ Blaise, Albert (1975), “circa”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (in Latin, French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 178
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Further readingEdit
- “circa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014