circumstantia
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪr.kũːˈstan.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃir.kumˈst̪an.t̪͡s̪i.a]
Etymology 1
From circumstāns.
Noun
circumstantia f (genitive circumstantiae); first declension
- surrounding (standing around)
- encircling troops
- circumstance
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | circumstantia | circumstantiae |
| genitive | circumstantiae | circumstantiārum |
| dative | circumstantiae | circumstantiīs |
| accusative | circumstantiam | circumstantiās |
| ablative | circumstantiā | circumstantiīs |
| vocative | circumstantia | circumstantiae |
Descendants
- Asturian: circunstancia
- Catalan: circumstància
- English: circumstance
- French: circonstance
- Galician: circunstancia
- Italian: circostanza
- Portuguese: circunstância
- Papiamentu: sirkunstansha
- Romanian: circumstanță
- Spanish: circunstancia
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
circumstantia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of circumstāns
References
- “circumstantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "circumstantia", 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)
- circumstantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.