circo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈθiɾko/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾko/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: cir‧co
• Rhymes: -iɾko

circo m (plural circos)

1. circus

• “circo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “circo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.ko/

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)

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

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

circo m (plural circhi)

1. circus
2. corrie

• cerchio

• croci, ricco

From circus (“circle”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪr.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃir.ko]

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

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

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin circus.

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circo m (plural circos)

1. circus

• → Tetum: sirku

• “circo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

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

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

circo m (plural circos)

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

• “circo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024