circius

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κίρκιος (kírkios), a derivation of circus.

Noun

circius m (genitive circiī or circī); second declension

1. a west-northwest wind

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	circius	circiī
Genitive	circiī circī1	circiōrum
Dative	circiō	circiīs
Accusative	circium	circiōs
Ablative	circiō	circiīs
Vocative	circie	circiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Asturian: zarza
• Galician: zarzo
• Spanish: cierzo
• → Arabic: شُرْش (šurš), مُشَرَّش (mušarraš, “northwest wind”)

References

• “circius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• circius 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)
• circius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “circius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 167 Nr. 193
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “circius”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 123a