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circus
English
Etymology
From Latin circus (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker, *ker (“to turn, to bend”). Doublet of cirque. Displaced native Old English hringsetl (literally “ring seat”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??k?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?k?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k?s
Noun
circus (plural circuses or circusses or circi)
- A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. [from late 18th c.]
- A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
- (figuratively) A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
- 2009, Christine Brooks, A Quiet Village (page 81)
- The village would be turned into a circus over this. He groaned, it was just the sort of case the media had a field day over. He had to get the whole thing sorted fast before anyone got wind of it.
- 2009, Christine Brooks, A Quiet Village (page 81)
- (historical) In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
- (military, World War II) A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
- (obsolete) Circuit; space; enclosure.
- 1817, Lord Byron, The Lament of Tasso
- The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.
- 1817, Lord Byron, The Lament of Tasso
Coordinate terms
- (open space): concourse
Derived terms
- bread and circuses
- let's get this circus on the road
- media circus
- three-ring circus
Related terms
- circular
- circle
Translations
Verb
circus (third-person singular simple present circuses or circusses, present participle circusing or circussing, simple past and past participle circused or circussed)
- To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus
References
Anagrams
- Curcis, Ruccis
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r.k?s/
- Hyphenation: cir?cus
Noun
circus n (plural circussen, diminutive circusje n)
- circus (company of performers; place where this company performs)
Derived terms
- circusartiest
- circusclown
- circusdier
- circusshow
- circustent
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sirkus
- ? Indonesian: sirkus
See also
- beestenspel
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to ?????? (kríkos, “ring”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kir.kus/, [?k?rk?s?]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /?kir.kus/, [?k?rk?s]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?t??ir.kus/, [?t??irkus]
Noun
circus m (genitive circ?); second declension
- a circular line or orbit; circle, ring
- a racecourse or space where games are held, especially one that is round
- the spectators in a circus; a circus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- circus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- circus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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roustabout
English
Alternative forms
- rouseabout
Etymology
Unknown
Noun
roustabout (plural roustabouts)
- (chiefly US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship, 19th c.
- 1961, Robert Fitzgerald (translator), Homer, Odyssey, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Book Eleven, 668-9,
- Then Sísiphos in torment I beheld / being roustabout to a tremendous boulder.
- 1974, Saul Bellow, "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" in Collected Stories, Penguin, 2001, p. 377,
- Brooklyn Tony, who had run away from home to be a circus roustabout, became a poster artist and eventually an Abstract Expressionist.
- 2013, Celeste Headlee, NPR, 7 January, 2013, [1]
- She works in McGregor, North Dakota as a roustabout pusher. That means she and her crew help fix and maintain the drilling sites.
- See also quotations under rouseabout.
- 1961, Robert Fitzgerald (translator), Homer, Odyssey, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Book Eleven, 668-9,
Translations
Further reading
- roustabout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- tourabouts
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