circumfero
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From circum- (“circum-”) + ferō (“I bear, carry”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kirˈkum.fe.roː/, [kɪrˈkũːfɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃirˈkum.fe.ro/, [t͡ʃirˈkumfero]
Verb[edit]
circumferō (present infinitive circumferre, perfect active circumtulī, supine circumlātum); third conjugation, irregular
- to carry, bear or move around or about; carry or move around in a circle
- to publish abroad, proclaim, circulate, divulge, disseminate, report
- (religion) to purify someone by carrying around him consecrated objects
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Descendants[edit]
- → English: circumfer
- → Spanish: circunferir
References[edit]
- “circumfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumfero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to look in every direction: oculos circumferre
- to look in every direction: oculos circumferre
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *telh₂- (bear)
- Latin terms prefixed with circum-
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- la:Religion
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin irregular verbs
- Latin suppletive verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook