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circulus

circulus

Latin

Noun

circulus m ‎(genitive circulī); second declension

circle (geometric figure)
An orbit (circular path)
A ring, hoop
A necklace, chain
A company, social gathering, group
(Medieval) A calendrical cycle
Huius sexto anno primus Dionisi circulus inchoat
In the sixth year of which [reign], the first cycle of Dionysius begins. — Bede, Chronica Minora

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	circulus	circulī
genitive	circulī	circulōrum
dative	circulō	circulīs
accusative	circulum	circulōs
ablative	circulō	circulīs
vocative	circule	circulī

Related terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: sirkel
Albanian: qarkull
Aragonese: cerclo
Aromanian: tserclju
Asturian: círculu
Basque: zirkulu
Catalan: cercle
Dalmatian: circol
Danish: cirkel
Dutch: cirkel
English: circle
Esperanto: cirklo
French: cercle
Friulian: cercli, circul

Galician: círculo
German: Zirkel
Ido: cirklo
Interlingua: circulo
Irish: ciorcal
Italian: cerchio, circolo
Limburgish: cirkel
Manx: kiarkyl
Norman: cèrcl'ye
Norwegian: sirkel
Occitan: cercle
Old French: cercle
Old Irish: circul
Pitcairn-Norfolk: sirkil

Portuguese: círculo
Russian: ци́ркуль ‎(církul')
Sardinian: chìlciu, círculu, tzírculu
Scottish Gaelic: cearcall
Sicilian: circhiu
Spanish: círculo
Swedish: cirkel
Venetian: sercio, sércio
Walloon: ceke

References

circulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
circulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
CIRCULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “circulus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.