circumitus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of circumeō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪrˈkʊ.mɪ.tʊs], [kɪrˈkʊm.ɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.mi.tus], [t͡ʃirˈkum.i.tus] Note: The pronunciation in Classical times may have been IPA(key): [ˌkɪr.kũ(ː)ˈɪ.tʊs], as visible by the alternative spelling circū̆itus. ==== Participle ==== circumitus (feminine circumita, neuter circumitum); first/second-declension participle alternative form of circuitus ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From circumeō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== circumitus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪrˈkʊ.mɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.mi.tus] circumitūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪrˈkʊ.mɪ.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.mi.tus] Note: See above. ==== Noun ==== circumitus m (genitive circumitūs); fourth declension alternative form of circuitus quadrigae septeno currant circumitu. Vita Sancti Hilaronis, S. Hieronymus Four-horse teams ran the circuit seven times. The Life of St. Hilary, St. Jerome ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === Further reading === “circŭmĭtus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “circŭmĭtus, -a, -um / circŭmĭtŭs, -ūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.