circulus

• circlus (rare, poetic)

From circus +‎ -ulus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkir.ku.lus/, [ˈkɪrkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ku.lus/, [ˈt͡ʃirkulus]

circulus m (genitive circulī); second declension

1. A circle (geometric figure)
2. An orbit (circular path)
3. A ring, hoop
4. A necklace, chain
5. A company, social gathering, group
6. (Medieval) A calendrical cycle

   Huius sexto anno primus Dionisi circulus inchoat

   In the sixth year of which [reign], the first cycle of Dionysius begins. — Bede, Chronica Minora

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Learned borrowings:

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cĭrcŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 703

• “circulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• circulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• circulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette