circuitus

• circumitus

Perfect passive participle of circueō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪrˈkuː.ɪ.tʊs], [kɪrˈku.ɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.i.tus]
• Note: The second syllable may be long due to compensatory lengthening from losing the nasal of circum, yet it may also be shortened due to the Latin rule of having only the last vowel in a row be allowed to be long.

circuitus (feminine circuita, neuter circuitum); first/second-declension participle

1. circulated

First/second-declension adjective.

From circumeō + -tus (forming action nouns).

• circuitus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪrˈku.ɪ.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.i.tus]
• circumitūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪrˈkʊ.mɪ.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.mi.tus]
• Note: See above.

circuitus m (genitive circuitūs); fourth declension

1. patrol
2. circuit
3. revolution (going around)
4. cycle, period
5. circumlocution

Fourth-declension noun.

• “circŭĭtus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circuitus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “circŭĭtus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circuitus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “circŭĭtus, -a, -um / circŭĭtŭs, -ūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "circuitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus