circumscribo
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kir.kumˈskriː.boː/, [kɪrkũːˈs̠kriːboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kumˈskri.bo/, [t͡ʃirkumˈskriːbo]
Verb
editcircumscrībō (present infinitive circumscrībere, perfect active circumscrīpsī, supine circumscrīptum); third conjugation
- to draw a line around, enclose in a circle, circumscribe
- to enclose, limit, bound, restrain, hem in
- (medicine) to abate, subside
- to deceive, cheat, circumvent, entrap, ensnare
- to defraud, deprive of money
- to declare invalid, annul, invalidate, void
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of circumscrībō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: circumscriure
- English: circumscribe
- French: circonscrire
- Galician: circunscribir
- Italian: circoscrivere
- Portuguese: circunscrever
- Romanian: circumscrie
- Spanish: circunscribir
References
edit- “circumscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumscribo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to set bounds to a thing, limit it: terminis circumscribere aliquid
- to set bounds to a thing, limit it: terminis circumscribere aliquid