circumscriptio Latin · revision 33369

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *skreibh-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɪr.kũːˈskriːp.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃir.kumˈskrip.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''circumscrīptiō''' ''f'' (genitive circumscrīptiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|circumscrībō|-tiō|t1=to draw a line around]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|circumscrībō]] is [[m|la|circum-|t=around]] with [[m|la|scrībō|t=to write]],^(OLD 2012) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*skreif-e/o-|t=to carve]] and [[ine-pro|*skreibh-e/o-|t=to carve]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|scriftas|t=written]] and [[xum|screhto|t=written]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL record it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) In the eighth ''Philippic'' it is a circle drawn round a man, who was not to step out of it before he had given his answer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the drawn circle it came to mean a boundary, outline or compass: Cicero imagines looking on the whole earth, its position, shape and extent, and speaks of an eternity that no limitation of time measured.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric Cicero uses it for the period, the rounded sentence the Greeks called περίοδος,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and for a kind of periphrasis;^(OLD 2012) Quintilian has it for a short summary or definition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Like [[m|la|circumscrībō]], which also meant to trick someone, it came to mean cheating or defrauding, especially by legal artifice in money matters:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero accuses an opponent of putting up estates for sale by open fraud.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca and Tertullian use it of deceit in general.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Arnobius uses it of the outline of a body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a drawn circle, of the compass of the earth, of a period in prose, and of fraud.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of a short definition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius, of the outline of a body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English borrows it as [[m|en|circumscription]], the laying down of limits.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|circle]] drawn round something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|circumference|alt=Circumference]], boundary, limits; of time, limitation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|outline|alt=Outline]], [[m|en|contour]]; a short definition or summary.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A [[m|en|period]], a rounded sentence; a [[m|en|periphrasis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|cheating|alt=Cheating]], defrauding, [[m|en|fraud]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[circumscrībō]]

+ * [[scrībō]]

+ * [[en|circumscription]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}