circumferentia
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
circumferentia (uncountable)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From circumferens (“carry around”) + -ia.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kir.kum.feˈren.ti.a/, [kɪrkũːfɛˈrɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kum.feˈren.t͡si.a/, [t͡ʃirkumfeˈrɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun edit
circumferentia f (genitive circumferentiae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | circumferentia | circumferentiae |
| Genitive | circumferentiae | circumferentiārum |
| Dative | circumferentiae | circumferentiīs |
| Accusative | circumferentiam | circumferentiās |
| Ablative | circumferentiā | circumferentiīs |
| Vocative | circumferentia | circumferentiae |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: circumferència
- English: circumference
- Italian: circonferenza
- Old French: circonference
- French: circonférence
- Norman: circonféthence
- Portuguese: circunferência
- Romanian: circumferință
- Spanish: circunferencia
References edit
- “circumferentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circumferentia 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)
- circumferentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.