circinus

From Ancient Greek κίρκινος (kírkinos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪr.kɪ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃir.t͡ʃi.nus]

circinus m (genitive circinī); second declension

1. A pair of compasses; a tool for measuring distances or constructing a circle.

Second-declension noun.

• “circinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• circinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “circinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “circinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin