# circo
## Aragonese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus. Compare cerco, which is an inherited doublet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθiɾko/
* Rhymes: -iɾko
* Syllabification: cir‧co

### Noun

circo m (plural circos)
* circus

### References

* “circo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “circo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siʁ.ko/

### Noun

circo f (plural circos)
* (colloquial, politics) Clipping of circonscription (“electoral district”).
** 2024 July 8, Romain Cantenot, “Le RN perd Avignon mais conforte son ancrage”, in La Provence, page 7:Une circo de perdue, une de gagnée, et un pari manqué pour le RN, qui espérait décrocher la dernière des circonscriptions qui lui avait échappé en 2022 pour s’arroger les cinq fauteuils vauclusiens dans l’Hémicycle.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus. Doublet of the now-archaic cerco (“circle, circus”), which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃir.ko/
* Rhymes: -irko
* Hyphenation: cìr‧co

### Noun

circo m (plural circhi)
* circus
* corrie

#### Related terms

* cerchio

### References

* ↑ Accademia della Crusca (1729–1738) “cerco”, in Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca (in Italian), 4 edition – on www.lessicografia.it

### Anagrams

* croci, ricco

## Latin
### Etymology

From circus (“circle”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkir.koː/, [ˈkɪrkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃir.ko/, [ˈt͡ʃirko]

### Verb

circō (present infinitive circāre, perfect active circāvī, supine circātum); first conjugation, no passive
* to traverse, go about
* to wander through

#### Derived terms

* circātor (Medieval Latin)
* circitō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: cercar
* Catalan: cercar
* Franco-Provençal: chèrchiér
* Friulian: cercjâ, cerčhâ
* Italian: cercare
* Neapolitan: cercare
* Occitan: cercar
* Old French: cerchier, cercer, cercher, cergier, cerquer, chercher, sercheer, serchere, serchier, secher, sericher
** Bourguignon: sarchai, charchai
** Champenois: charcher, sarcher
** Middle French: chercher, cercher
*** French: chercher
** → Middle English: serchen, cerchen, scherchen, seerchen, seergyn, serce, serche, serchyn, serge, sergen
*** English: search
*** Scots: sairch
* Old Galician-Portuguese: cercar
** Galician: cercar
** Portuguese: cercar (see there for further descendants)
* Romanian: cerca, cercare, încerca, încercare
* Romansch: tschertgar, tschercar, tscharcar, tschercher
* Sardinian: chilcare, chircare, chiscare, cicai, cicari
* Sicilian: circari
* Spanish: cercar
* Venetan: çercar, sercar
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: kërkoj
** → Esperanto: serĉi

### References

* “circo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "circo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* circo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsiʁ.ku/ [ˈsih.ku]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsiʁ.ku/ [ˈsih.ku]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈsiɾ.ku/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈsiʁ.ku/ [ˈsiχ.ku]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsiɻ.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsiɾ.ku/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

circo m (plural circos)
* circus

#### Derived terms

* pão e circo
* ver o circo pegar fogo

#### Related terms

* circense
* círculo

#### Descendants

* → Tetum: sirku

### Further reading

* “circo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circus. Compare cerco, which is an inherited doublet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθiɾko/ [ˈθiɾ.ko]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsiɾko/ [ˈsiɾ.ko]
* Rhymes: -iɾko
* Syllabification: cir‧co

### Noun

circo m (plural circos)
* circus (a travelling company of performers)
* (historical) circus (a building for chariot-racing in Ancient Rome)

#### Derived terms

* monto un circo y me crecen los enanos

#### Related terms

* círculo

### Further reading

* “circo”, 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