circonspection
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin circumspectiōnem (“looking around, circumspection”), from circumspiciō (“to look around”). By surface analysis, circonspect + -tion.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
circonspection f (plural circonspections)
- circumspection (attention to all the facts and circumstances)
Further reading edit
- “circonspection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.