cercle

cercle (plural cercles)

1. Obsolete form of circle.

Inherited from Old Catalan cercle, inherited from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus. Doublet of cèrcol and the presumably semi-learnèd círcol (now obsolete). Cf. Occitan cercle.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈser.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈseɾ.kle]

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cercle m (plural cercles)

1. circle

• círcol (obsolete)

• cerclar
• cercle viciós
• encerclar
• semicercle

• cercar
• circ
• circular

• “cercle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cercle”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cercle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cercle”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Old French cercle, from Latin circulus.

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁkl/

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cercle m (plural cercles)

1. (geometry) circle
2. group of people, circle

• cerceau
• cerce
• chercher
• circulaire
• cirque

• Haitian Creole: sèk

cercle

1. inflection of cercler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cercle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old Occitan cercle, from Latin circulus, from circus.

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cercle m (plural cercles)

1. circle

• cercar
• circulari
• cirque

From Latin circulus, from circus.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡seɾklə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛɾklə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾklə/

cercle oblique singular, m (oblique plural cercles, nominative singular cercles, nominative plural cercle)

1. circle (shape)

• cercel
• cerchier

• French: cercle
  • Haitian Creole: sèk
• Norman: cèrcl'ye (Jersey)
• Walloon: ceke
• → Middle English: cercle, circle (Latin-influenced)
  • English: circle
  • Scots: circle