English
circuit
Circuit comes from Latin circuitus ‘a going round’, from circumeō ‘to go round’, from circum ‘around’ + eō ‘to go’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircus‘circle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircum‘around’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircumeō‘to go round’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircuitus‘a going round’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400circuit
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500circuit
- Englishearliest quotation 1572circuit
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircus‘circle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircum‘around’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircumeō‘to go round’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircuitus‘a going round’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400circuit
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500circuit
- Englishearliest quotation 1572circuit
Earliest quotation: 1572, Richard Huloet: “circuite of words.”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to turn, bend’
short, across, share, card, cross, cancer, screen, score, shirt, crucial, scare, curve, carnival, scar, cancellation, scrutiny, shrine, skirt, crest, curb, corona, shear, scorpion, shred, carnage, incarceration, raffle, corolla, scorn, shrewd, crux, shard, carnal, riddance, crepe, carnivorous, corgi, carcinoma, ruck, shrew, 116 more
through Latin circus ‘circle, ring’
through Latin circum ‘around’
Today it means
noun The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin circus / circuit