circumcirca

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circumcircā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃir.kumˈt͡ʃir.ka/
• Rhymes: -irka
• Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧cìr‧ca

Adverb

circumcirca

1. (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

Etymology

From circum- (“circum-”) +‎ circā (“around, about”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kir.kunˈkir.kaː/, [kɪrkʊŋˈkɪrkäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃir.kunˈt͡ʃir.ka/, [t͡ʃirkun̠ʲˈt͡ʃirkä]

Adverb

circumcircā (not comparable)

1. all around

Descendants

• Italian: circumcirca

References

• “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.