circuitus

Latin[edit]

Perfect passive participle of circueō.

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

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	circuitus	circuita	circuitum	circuitī	circuitae	circuita
Genitive	circuitī	circuitae	circuitī	circuitōrum	circuitārum	circuitōrum
Dative	circuitō	circuitae	circuitō	circuitīs
Accusative	circuitum	circuitam	circuitum	circuitōs	circuitās	circuita
Ablative	circuitō	circuitā	circuitō	circuitīs
Vocative	circuite	circuita	circuitum	circuitī	circuitae	circuita

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

From circueō, alternative form of circumeō (“go around”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

circuitus m (genitive circuitūs); fourth declension

Inherited:
- Old Italian: circovito, cercovito (“surrounding wall”) (possibly a phonetically-adapted borrowing)
Borrowed:
- → Catalan: circuit
- → French: circuit
- → Friulian: circuit
- → Galician: circuito
- → Italian: circuito
- → Piedmontese: sircuit
- → Portuguese: circuito
- → Spanish: circuito

“circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
circuitus 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)
circuitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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