circonvoisin

French

Etymology

From circon- +‎ voisin, perhaps based on, if not borrowed from, Latin circumvicinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃.vwa.zɛ̃/

Adjective

circonvoisin (feminine circonvoisine, masculine plural circonvoisins, feminine plural circonvoisines)

1. (literary ) surrounding, located around, circumjacent
   • 1837, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume II, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Tout cela se sut et se répandit dans les villages circonvoisins.

     All of that became known and spread into the neighboring villages.

References

• “circonvoisin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Adjective

circonvoisin m (feminine singular circonvoisine, masculine plural circonvoisins, feminine plural circonvoisines)

1. neighboring, located around, circumjacent.