English

subcircinate

From sub- + circinate.

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Latin circus ‘a circular line or orbit’

Latin circinus ‘pair of compasses’

Latin circinō ‘to make round’

Latin circinatus

Today it means

adj Nearly circinate; approaching a circinate form.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / subcircinate