circuitus

Latin

Etymology

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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