circumscribo

Latin

Etymology

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Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.

Latin circus

Latin circum

Latin circum-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti

Proto-Italic *skreiβō

Latin scrībō

Latin circumscrībō

From circum- + scrībō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪr.kũːˈskriː.boː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃir.kumˈskriː.bo]

Verb

circumscrībō (present infinitive circumscrībere, perfect active circumscrīpsī, supine circumscrīptum); third conjugation

to draw a line around, enclose in a circle, circumscribe
to enclose, limit, bound, restrain, hem in
(medicine) to abate, subside
to deceive, cheat, circumvent, entrap, ensnare
to defraud, deprive of money
to declare invalid, annul, invalidate, void

Conjugation

Conjugation of circumscrībō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	circumscrībō	circumscrībis		circumscrībit	circumscrībimus	circumscrībitis		circumscrībunt
	imperfect	circumscrībēbam	circumscrībēbās		circumscrībēbat	circumscrībēbāmus	circumscrībēbātis		circumscrībēbant
	future	circumscrībam	circumscrībēs		circumscrībet	circumscrībēmus	circumscrībētis		circumscrībent
	perfect	circumscrīpsī	circumscrīpsistī		circumscrīpsit	circumscrīpsimus	circumscrīpsistis		circumscrīpsērunt, circumscrīpsēre
	pluperfect	circumscrīpseram	circumscrīpserās		circumscrīpserat	circumscrīpserāmus	circumscrīpserātis		circumscrīpserant
	future perfect	circumscrīpserō	circumscrīpseris		circumscrīpserit	circumscrīpserimus	circumscrīpseritis		circumscrīpserint
passive	present	circumscrībor	circumscrīberis, circumscrībere		circumscrībitur	circumscrībimur	circumscrībiminī		circumscrībuntur
	imperfect	circumscrībēbar	circumscrībēbāris, circumscrībēbāre		circumscrībēbātur	circumscrībēbāmur	circumscrībēbāminī		circumscrībēbantur
	future	circumscrībar	circumscrībēris, circumscrībēre		circumscrībētur	circumscrībēmur	circumscrībēminī		circumscrībentur
	perfect	circumscrīptus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	circumscrīptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	circumscrīptus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	circumscrībam	circumscrībās		circumscrībat	circumscrībāmus	circumscrībātis		circumscrībant
	imperfect	circumscrīberem	circumscrīberēs		circumscrīberet	circumscrīberēmus	circumscrīberētis		circumscrīberent
	perfect	circumscrīpserim	circumscrīpserīs		circumscrīpserit	circumscrīpserīmus	circumscrīpserītis		circumscrīpserint
	pluperfect	circumscrīpsissem	circumscrīpsissēs		circumscrīpsisset	circumscrīpsissēmus	circumscrīpsissētis		circumscrīpsissent
passive	present	circumscrībar	circumscrībāris, circumscrībāre		circumscrībātur	circumscrībāmur	circumscrībāminī		circumscrībantur
	imperfect	circumscrīberer	circumscrīberēris, circumscrīberēre		circumscrīberētur	circumscrīberēmur	circumscrīberēminī		circumscrīberentur
	perfect	circumscrīptus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	circumscrīptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	circumscrībe		—	—	circumscrībite		—
active	future	—	circumscrībitō		circumscrībitō	—	circumscrībitōte		circumscrībuntō
passive	present	—	circumscrībere		—	—	circumscrībiminī		—
passive	future	—	circumscrībitor		circumscrībitor	—	—		circumscrībuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		circumscrībere		circumscrībī		circumscrībēns		—
future		circumscrīptūrum esse		circumscrīptum īrī		circumscrīptūrus		circumscrībendus, circumscrībundus
perfect		circumscrīpsisse		circumscrīptum esse		—		circumscrīptus
future perfect		—		circumscrīptum fore		—		—
perfect potential		circumscrīptūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		circumscrībendī	circumscrībendō		circumscrībendum	circumscrībendō	circumscrīptum		circumscrīptū

Derived terms

Descendants

Catalan: circumscriure
English: circumscribe
French: circonscrire
Galician: circunscribir
Italian: circoscrivere
Portuguese: circunscrever
Romanian: circumscrie
Spanish: circunscribir

References

“circumscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“circumscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“circumscribo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to set bounds to a thing, limit it: terminis circumscribere aliquid