English
circumbendibus
Circumbendibus comes from Latin circum ‘round about’, and goes back to circus ‘circle, ring’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircus‘circle, ring’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircum‘round about’
- Englishearliest quotation 1899circumbendibus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircus‘circle, ring’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcircum‘round about’
- Englishearliest quotation 1899circumbendibus
Earliest quotation: 1899, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics; Or: “If, as Coleridge says, “a knave is a fool…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to turn, bend’
short, across, share, card, cross, cancer, score, screen, shirt, crucial, scare, curve, carnival, skirt, scar, cancellation, scrutiny, shrine, crest, curb, corona, shear, scorpion, shred, carnage, incarceration, raffle, corolla, scorn, shrewd, crux, shard, carnal, carcinoma, riddance, crepe, corgi, ruck, shrew, carnivorous, 113 more
through Latin circus ‘circle, ring’
circle, circulation, circulate, cirque, circulatory, 15 more
through Latin circum ‘round about’
Today it means
adj indirect or roundabout
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin circus / circumbendibus