# circumcise
## English
### Etymology

From Old French circoncisier, from Latin circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsəːkəmsʌɪz/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɚkəmˌsaɪz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧cise

### Verb

circumcise (third-person singular simple present circumcises, present participle circumcising, simple past and past participle circumcised)
* To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
* (sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.
* (military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.

#### Synonyms

* circ (informal), snip (informal)
* cut (informal)
* posthectomize (rare, medical)

#### Derived terms

* circumcisable
* circumcisee
* circumciser
* circumcisor
* recircumcise

#### Related terms

* circumcision

#### Translations

Arabic: خَتَنَ (ḵatana)
Moroccan Arabic: ختن (ḵattan), طهر (ṭahhar)
Armenian: թլփատել (hy) (tʻlpʻatel)
Asturian: circuncidar
Azerbaijani: kəsdirmək, sünnət etdirmək
Bulgarian: обрязвам (bg) (obrjazvam)
Catalan: circumcidar (ca)
Chinese:
Hokkien: 割鳥皮 / 割鸟皮 (koah-chiáu-phê)
Mandarin: 割包皮 (zh) (gē bāopí)
Czech: obřezat (cs) pf, obřezávat impf
Danish: omskære
Dutch: besnijden (nl)
Egyptian: (sꜥb), (fḫt m ṯꜣm)
Esperanto: cirkumcidi (eo)
Faroese: umskera
Finnish: ympärileikata (fi)
French: circoncire (fr)
Galician: circuncidar
Georgian: წინდაცვეთა (c̣indacveta)
German: beschneiden (de)
Greek: περιτέμνω (el) (peritémno)
Ancient: περιτέμνω (peritémnō)
Hebrew: מל (mal)
Hindi: ख़तना करना (xatnā karnā)
Hungarian: körülmetél (hu)
Icelandic: umskera
Ido: cirkoncizar (io)
Indonesian: menyunat (id), mengkhitan (id)
Irish: imghearr, timpeallghearr
Italian: circoncidere (it)
Japanese: 割礼を行なう (かつれいをおこなう, katsurei o okonau)
Korean: 할례를 하다 (hallyereul hada)
Latin: circumcīdō
Lithuanian: apipjaustyti (lt)
Macedonian: обрежува (obrežuva), сунетисување n (sunetisuvanje)
Malay: mengkhatankan
Maori: poka kirimata, kokoti
Nandi: muratan
Occitan: circomcir
Old English: ymbċeorfan, ymbsnīþan
Polish: obrzezać (pl), obrzezywać (pl)
Portuguese: circuncidar (pt)
Romanian: circumcide (ro)
Russian: соверша́ть обреза́ние impf (soveršátʹ obrezánije), соверши́ть обреза́ние pf (soveršítʹ obrezánije), обреза́ть (ru) impf (obrezátʹ), обре́зать (ru) pf (obrézatʹ) (impf. and pf. differ in word stress)
Slovak: obrezať pf, obrezávať impf, obrezovať impf
Spanish: circuncidar (es)
Swedish: omskära (sv)
Turkish: sünnet etmek (tr) (transitive), sünnet olmak (tr) (intransitive)
Vietnamese: cắt bao quy đầu
Volapük: säprepüdön
Walloon: discaloter (wa), dischafyî (wa)
Welsh: enwaedu (cy)
Yiddish: ייִדישן (yidishn) :

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Form of circumcīsus.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kir.kunˈkiː.se/, [kɪrkʊŋˈkiːs̠ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /t͡ʃir.kunˈt͡ʃi.se/, [t͡ʃirkun̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːs̬e]

#### Participle

circumcīse
* vocative masculine singular of circumcīsus

### Etymology 2

From circumcīsus (“cut, reduced”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kir.kunˈkiː.seː/, [kɪrkʊŋˈkiːs̠eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /t͡ʃir.kunˈt͡ʃi.se/, [t͡ʃirkun̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːs̬e]

#### Adverb

circumcīsē (comparative circumcīsius, superlative circumcīsissimē)
* concisely, briefly

### References

* “circumcise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* circumcise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃir.kumˈt͡ʃi.se/
* Rhymes: -ise
* Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧ci‧se

### Adjective

circumcise f pl or n pl
* feminine/neuter plural of circumcis (“circumcised”)

### Verb

circumcise
* third-person singular simple perfect indicative of circumcide (“circumcise”)