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Borrowed from Latin circum-.

circum-

1. around, surrounding

• (around): peri-, para-

• circa

From Latin circum-.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃir.kum/
• Hyphenation: cir‧cum-

circum-

1. circum-

   Synonym: circon-

Combining form of circum (“round about”, “in a circle around”, adverb and preposition).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkir.kum/, [ˈkɪrkʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.kum/, [ˈt͡ʃirkum]

circum-

1. circum- (round, about)

• Derivations of this suffix frequently occur divisim.

• “circum III”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “circum-” on page 318/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• circun-

From Latin circum-.

circum-

1. circum- (around)

Circum- with a hyphen is used before M, N, H and vowels, otherwise circun- with no hyphen is used.

circum-

1. Alternative form of circun-

• “circum-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10