See circa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"on both sides"
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},
{
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
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"text": "Catalan: cerca, circa"
},
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"expansion": "Dutch: circa",
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"text": "Dutch: circa"
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"text": "English: circa"
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"expansion": "German: circa",
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"text": "German: circa"
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"text": "Italian: circa"
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"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: cirka",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "Norwegian Bokmål: cirka"
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"text": "Romanian: circa"
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"expansion": "Sicilian: circa",
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"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.7",
"text": "Circa advenam manifestae reum caedis"
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"english": "Whom I have sent to you for this very thing, so that you can know things that are about us, and so that he can comfort your hearts.",
"ref": "405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ephesii.6.22",
"text": "quem misi ad vos in hoc ipsum ut cognoscatis quae circa nos sunt et consoletur corda vestra"
}
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{
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},
{
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"genitive"
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"episcopal visit"
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"inquiry, inquest"
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{
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"name": "desctree"
}
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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"name": "desc"
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"2": "cerca",
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "circa"
},
"expansion": "French: circa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: circa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "circa"
},
"expansion": "German: circa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "German: circa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "circa"
},
"expansion": "Italian: circa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: circa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "cirka"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: cirka",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norwegian Bokmål: cirka"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "cerca"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: cerca",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: cerca"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "circa"
},
"expansion": "Romanian: circa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romanian: circa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scn",
"2": "circa"
},
"expansion": "Sicilian: circa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sicilian: circa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "cerca",
"3": "circa"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: cerca, circa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: cerca, circa"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "A later form for circum, or from circum + eā.\nThe accusative is from the adverbial derivation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circā",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "circā",
"2": "accusative"
},
"expansion": "circā (+ accusative)",
"name": "la-prep"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "prep",
"related": [
{
"word": "circātor"
},
{
"word": "circus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "around the stranger accused of open murder",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.7",
"text": "Circa advenam manifestae reum caedis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"around; near; about"
],
"links": [
[
"around",
"around"
],
[
"near",
"near"
],
[
"about",
"about"
]
],
"tags": [
"with-accusative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Whom I have sent to you for this very thing, so that you can know things that are about us, and so that he can comfort your hearts.",
"ref": "405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ephesii.6.22",
"text": "quem misi ad vos in hoc ipsum ut cognoscatis quae circa nos sunt et consoletur corda vestra"
}
],
"glosses": [
"regarding, concerning"
],
"links": [
[
"regarding",
"regarding"
],
[
"concerning",
"concerning"
]
],
"tags": [
"with-accusative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkir.kaː/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkɪrkäː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃir.ka/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃirkä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "circa"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin nouns with red links in their inflection tables",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Medieval Latin",
"Pages with 10 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Ultimately related to etymology 1. Sense 4 is only attested in the form cerca(s); see there for more.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "circa<1>"
},
"expansion": "circa f (genitive circae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"patrol, watch"
],
"links": [
[
"patrol",
"patrol"
],
[
"watch",
"watch"
]
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"episcopal visit"
],
"links": [
[
"episcopal",
"episcopal"
],
[
"visit",
"visit"
]
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"inquiry, inquest"
],
"links": [
[
"inquiry",
"inquiry"
],
[
"inquest",
"inquest"
]
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"defensive enclosure, moat"
],
"links": [
[
"defensive",
"defensive"
],
[
"enclosure",
"enclosure"
],
[
"moat",
"moat"
]
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkir.kaː/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkɪrkäː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃir.ka/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃirkä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Boston",
"Brill",
"Leiden"
],
"word": "circa"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-oca",
"2": "cerca",
"t": "enclosure"
},
"expansion": "Old Catalan: cerca (“enclosure”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Catalan: cerca (“enclosure”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "cerca"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: cerca",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: cerca"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ML.",
"2": "cerca",
"alt": "cercas",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Medieval Latin: cercas",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "hapax, only found as plural"
},
"expansion": "(hapax, only found as plural)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "→ Medieval Latin: cercas (hapax, only found as plural)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "cerche",
"t": "circular structure"
},
"expansion": "Old French: cerche (“circular structure”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old French: cerche (“circular structure”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "cerche",
"3": "cherche"
},
"expansion": "Middle French: cerche, cherche",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle French: cerche, cherche"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "cherche"
},
"expansion": "French: cherche",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "/ʃ-/ via assimilation"
},
"expansion": "(/ʃ-/ via assimilation)",
"name": "q"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "/-s/ via assimilation or analogy with cerceau"
},
"expansion": "(/-s/ via assimilation or analogy with cerceau)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "French: cherche (/ʃ-/ via assimilation), cerce (/-s/ via assimilation or analogy with cerceau)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sarse",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle English: sarse, saarce, scarce, sarce, sarche, sars, sarss\nEnglish: searce, sarse\nScots: search",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle English: sarse, saarce, scarce, sarce, sarche, sars, sarss\nEnglish: searce, sarse\nScots: search"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Old Northern Italian: cerca (“enclosure”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "cerca",
"t": "fence, enclosing wall"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: cerca (“fence, enclosing wall”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: cerca (“fence, enclosing wall”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "cerca",
"t": "fence, enclosing wall"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: cerca (“fence, enclosing wall”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: cerca (“fence, enclosing wall”)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin circus (“ring, hoop”), either a direct feminization of it or a deverbal of circāre, itself a verb based on circus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circās",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "reconstructed noun",
"3": "plural",
"4": "*circās",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "*circa f (plural *circās)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "PWR"
},
"expansion": "(Proto-Western-Romance)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Latin/circa",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin reconstructed nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Western-Romance"
],
"glosses": [
"surrounding structure"
],
"links": [
[
"structure",
"structure"
]
],
"tags": [
"Proto-Western-Romance",
"feminine",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡serka/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃ-/"
}
],
"word": "circa"
}
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