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circo

See also: Circo

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Noun

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circo f (plural circos)

  1. (colloquial, politics) Clipping of circonscription (“electoral district”).
    • 2024 July 8, Romain Cantenot, “Le RN perd Avignon mais conforte son ancrage”, in La Provence, page 7:
      Une circo de perdue, une de gagnée, et un pari manqué pour le RN, qui espérait décrocher la dernière des circonscriptions qui lui avait échappé en 2022 pour s’arroger les cinq fauteuils vauclusiens dans l’Hémicycle.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin circus. Doublet of the now-obsolete cerco (“circle; circus”),[1] which was inherited.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ko/
  • Rhymes: -irko
  • Hyphenation: cìr‧co

Noun

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circo m (plural circhi)

  1. circus
  2. corrie
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  1. ^ Accademia della Crusca (1729–1738) “cerco”, in Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca (in Italian), 4 edition – on www.lessicografia.it

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Latin

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Etymology

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From circus (“circle”) +‎ -ō.

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Verb

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circō (present infinitive circāre, perfect active circāvī, supine circātum); first conjugation, no passive

  1. to traverse, go about
  2. to wander through

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of circō (first conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present circō circās circat circāmus circātis circant
imperfect circābam circābās circābat circābāmus circābātis circābant
future circābō circābis circābit circābimus circābitis circābunt
perfect circāvī circāvistī circāvit circāvimus circāvistis circāvērunt,
circāvēre
pluperfect circāveram circāverās circāverat circāverāmus circāverātis circāverant
future perfect circāverō circāveris circāverit circāverimus circāveritis circāverint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present circem circēs circet circēmus circētis circent
imperfect circārem circārēs circāret circārēmus circārētis circārent
perfect circāverim circāverīs circāverit circāverīmus circāverītis circāverint
pluperfect circāvissem circāvissēs circāvisset circāvissēmus circāvissētis circāvissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — circā — — circāte —
future — circātō circātō — circātōte circantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives circāre circāvisse circātūrum esse — — —
participles circāns — circātūrus — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
circandī circandō circandum circandō circātum circātū

Derived terms

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References

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  • “circo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • circo 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)
  • circo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

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circo

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin circus.

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Noun

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circo m (plural circos)

  1. circus
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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin circus. Compare cerco, which is an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθiɾko/ [ˈθiɾ.ko]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsiɾko/ [ˈsiɾ.ko]
  • Rhymes: -iɾko
  • Syllabification: cir‧co

Noun

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circo m (plural circos)

  1. circus (a travelling company of performers)
  2. (historical) circus (a building for chariot-racing in Ancient Rome)

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