circumcise

From Middle English circumcisen, from Old French circumciser (modern French circoncire) and its etymon Latin circumcīsus, the past participle of circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəːkəmsʌɪz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɚkəmˌsaɪz/

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• Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧cise

circumcise (third-person singular simple present circumcises, present participle circumcising, simple past and past participle circumcised)

1. To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
2. (sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.
3. (military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.

• circ (informal), snip (informal)
• cut (informal)
• posthectomize (rare, medical)

• circumcision

Form of circumcīsus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪr.kʊŋˈkiː.sɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃir.kun̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.s̬e]

circumcīse

1. vocative masculine singular of circumcīsus

From circumcīsus (“cut, reduced”) + -ē (“-ly”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪr.kʊŋˈkiː.seː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃir.kun̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.s̬e]

circumcīsē (comparative circumcīsius, superlative circumcīsissimē)

1. concisely, briefly

• “circumcise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circumcise”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃir.kumˈt͡ʃi.se/
• Rhymes: -ise
• Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧ci‧se

circumcise f pl or n pl

1. feminine/neuter plural of circumcis (“circumcised”)

circumcise

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of circumcide (“circumcise”)