circiter
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From circus (“circle, ring”) + -ter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkir.ki.ter/, [ˈkɪrkɪt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.t͡ʃi.ter/, [ˈt͡ʃirt͡ʃit̪er]
Preposition
[edit]circiter (+ accusative)
- (of place) near, close, round about
- hunc locum circiter
- close to this place
- (of time) near, close, about
Adverb
[edit]circiter (not comparable)
- (of place) on every side; near, round about
- (of time) near, close, about
- mediā circiter nocte
- about midnight
- (of number) near, close, about, approximately
- circiter pars quarta
- about four parts
Related terms
[edit]Related terms
References
[edit]- “circiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circiter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- about a hundred of our men fell: nostri circiter centum ceciderunt
- about a hundred of our men fell: nostri circiter centum ceciderunt