circuitus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of circueō.

Participle

circuitus (feminine circuita, neuter circuitum); first/second-declension participle

  1. circulated
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative circuitus circuita circuitum circuitī circuitae circuita
Genitive circuitī circuitae circuitī circuitōrum circuitārum circuitōrum
Dative circuitō circuitō circuitīs
Accusative circuitum circuitam circuitum circuitōs circuitās circuita
Ablative circuitō circuitā circuitō circuitīs
Vocative circuite circuita circuitum circuitī circuitae circuita

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

Etymology 2

From circueō, alternative form of circumeō (“go around”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

circuitus m (genitive circuitūs); fourth declension

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

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative circuitus circuitūs
Genitive circuitūs circuituum
Dative circuituī circuitibus
Accusative circuitum circuitūs
Ablative circuitū circuitibus
Vocative circuitus circuitūs
Descendants
  • Inherited:
    • Old Italian: circovito, cercovito (“surrounding wall”) (possibly a phonetically-adapted borrowing)
  • Borrowed:

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • circuitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus
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