circumdo
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from circum- (“around”) + -dō/-dere (“put”) subsequently remodelled to circum- + dō/dare (“give”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪrˈkʊn.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃirˈkum.d̪o]
Verb
circumdō (present infinitive circumdare, perfect active circumdedī, supine circumdatum); first conjugation, irregular short ă in most forms
- to surround, enclose, encircle
- Synonyms: circumveniō, circumeō, circumsistō, claudō, obsideō, assideō, circumsaepiō, stīpō, complector, amplector, saepiō
Conjugation
Conjugation of circumdō (first conjugation, irregular short ă in most forms)
Descendants
- Catalan: circumdar
- Friulian: circundâ
- Galician: circundar
- Italian: circondare
- Portuguese: circundar
- Spanish: circundar
References
- “circumdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumdo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-dō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 175