circumspectus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of circumspiciō

Participle

circumspectus (feminine circumspecta, neuter circumspectum); first/second-declension participle

1. surveyed, looked around or over
2. well-considered, prudent, as in the appellations circumspectus vir (prudent man), circumspectus magister

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	circumspectus	circumspecta	circumspectum		circumspectī	circumspectae	circumspecta
genitive	circumspectī	circumspectae	circumspectī		circumspectōrum	circumspectārum	circumspectōrum
dative	circumspectō	circumspectae	circumspectō		circumspectīs
accusative	circumspectum	circumspectam	circumspectum		circumspectōs	circumspectās	circumspecta
ablative	circumspectō	circumspectā	circumspectō		circumspectīs
vocative	circumspecte	circumspecta	circumspectum		circumspectī	circumspectae	circumspecta

Descendants

• Catalan: circumspecte
• French: circonspect
• Galician: circunspecto
• Italian: circospetto
• Portuguese: circunspecto
• Spanish: circunspecto

References

• “circumspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circumspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• circumspectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • after mature deliberation: omnibus rebus circumspectis