Latin

Noun

circuitus m ‎(genitive circuitūs); fourth declension

1. patrol
2. circuit
3. revolution (going around)
4. cycle, period
5. circumlocution

Inflection

Fourth declension.

References

• circuitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• circuitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CIRCUITUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “circuitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus