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Borrowed from Latin circa.
circa
- Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)
Julius Caesar visited this area circa 50 BC.
2011 January 27, Michael Crowley, “Decision Time for Senator John Thune”, in TIME:
Political talent scouts have called South Dakota's John Thune "the Republican Obama" because his low profile, youth and presidential bearing recall the unknown Illinois Democrat circa January 2007.
approximately, about, around
- Arabic: حَوَالِي (ḥawālī)
- Egyptian Arabic: حوالي (ḥawālī)
- Armenian: մոտ (hy) (mot), մոտավորապես (hy) (motavorapes)
- Bulgarian: около (bg) (okolo), приблизително (bg) (priblizitelno)
- Catalan: circa (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大約 / 大约 (zh) (dàyuē)
- Czech: přibližně (cs), cirka (cs)
- Danish: cirka (da)
- Dutch: circa (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉirkaŭ (eo)
- Faroese: umleið
- Finnish: noin (fi)
- French: (with a measure) environ (fr), (with a date) vers (fr)
- Georgian: დაახლოებით (daaxloebit)
- German: ungefähr (de), etwa (de), um (de), circa (de), zirka (de)
- Greek: περίπου (el) (perípou), περ. (el) (per.)
- Hebrew: בקירוב (be'qiruv), בסביבות (be'svivot)
- Hindi: लगभग (hi) m (lagbhag), उमूमन (hi) m (umūman), तक़रीबन (hi) m (taqrīban)
- Hungarian: cirka (hu), körülbelül (hu), nagyjából (hu), hozzávetőleg (hu)
- Icelandic: um það bil (is), circa (is), sirka
- Italian: circa (it)
- Japanese: 約… (ja) (yaku), 大体… (ja) (daitai), …位 (ja) (kurai; gurai), …頃 (ja) (…ごろ, goro), およそ… (ja) (oyoso)
- Korean: […] 경(頃) ([ … ] gyeong), 대략(大略) (ko) (daeryak)
- Macedonian: о́колу (ókolu), при́ближно (príbližno), ци́рка (círka)
- Norwegian: cirka (no)
- Persian: حوالی (fa) (havâli-ye)
- Polish: circa (pl)
- Portuguese: cerca de, aproximadamente (pt)
- Russian: приблизи́тельно (ru) (priblizítelʹno), приме́рно (ru) (primérno), о́коло (ru) (ókolo) (+ genitive case)
- Spanish: cerca de, aproximadamente (es), circa (es)
- Swedish: cirka (sv)
- Thai: ประมาณ (th) (bprà-maan)
- Tibetan: ཡས་མས (yas mas)
- Turkish: aşağı yukarı (tr)
- Udmurt: ог (og)
- Vietnamese: khoảng (vi)
- Volapük: za (vo)
circa
- circa, approximately
- Synonym: cca
Borrowed from Latin circa.
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪr.kaː/
- Hyphenation: cir‧ca
circa
- circa: about, approximately
circa
- circa: about, approximately
- Synonyms: grofweg, pakweg, omstreeks, ongeveer, plusminus, ruwweg, zo'n, pak hem beet
Borrowed from Latin circa.
circa
- approximately, about
circa
- circa
- Synonyms: etwa, ungefähr
- “circa” in Duden online
- “circa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “circa” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Borrowed from Latin circā.
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ka/
- Rhymes: -irka
- Hyphenation: cìr‧ca
circa
- regarding, concerning
circa
- about, approximately
A later form for circum, or from circum + eā.
The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.
circā (not comparable)
- around; about
- on both sides
circā (+ accusative)
- around; near; about
- regarding, concerning
405 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Ephesii.6.22:
- quem misi ad vos in hoc ipsum ut cognoscatis quae circa nos sunt et consoletur corda vestra
- Whom I have sent to you for this very thing, so that you can know things that are about us, and so that he can comfort your hearts.
- “circa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "circa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “circa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- circa in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
Ultimately related to etymology 1. Sense 4 is only attested in the form cerca(s); see there for more.
circa f (genitive circae); first declension (Medieval Latin)[1][2]
- patrol, watch
- episcopal visit
- inquiry, inquest
- defensive enclosure, moat
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “2. circa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 180
- ^ Blaise, Albert (1975), “circa”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 178
Unadapted borrowing from Latin circā.
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sir.ka/
- Rhymes: -irka
- Syllabification: cir‧ca
circa
- (literary) circa, nearly, almost (in close approximation)
- Synonyms: blisko, koło, mniej więcej, niespełna, niemal, około, prawie, w przybliżeniu
- Na świecie żyje circa 9 mld ludzi. ― There are circa 9 billion people in the world.
- circa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- circa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Borrowed from Latin circa.
circa
- approximately, about, or so
- Synonym: cam
From Latin circā.
circa
- circa