circius
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κίρκιος (kírkios), from Κιρκαῖον (Kirkaîon).
Noun
[edit]circius m (genitive circiī or circī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | circius | circiī |
| genitive | circiī circī1 |
circiōrum |
| dative | circiō | circiīs |
| accusative | circium | circiōs |
| ablative | circiō | circiīs |
| vocative | circie | circiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: zarza
- Galician: zarzo
- Spanish: cierzo
- → Arabic: شُرْش (šurš), مُشَرَّش (mušarraš, “northwest wind”)
References
[edit]- “circius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circius 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)
- circius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “circius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 167 Nr. 193
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “circius”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 123a