circumspectus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of circumspiciō
Participle
circumspectus (feminine circumspecta, neuter circumspectum); first/second-declension participle
- surveyed, looked around or over
- well-considered, prudent, as in the appellations circumspectus vir (prudent man), circumspectus magister
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | circumspectus | circumspecta | circumspectum | circumspectī | circumspectae | circumspecta | |
| Genitive | circumspectī | circumspectae | circumspectī | circumspectōrum | circumspectārum | circumspectōrum | |
| Dative | circumspectō | circumspectō | circumspectīs | ||||
| Accusative | circumspectum | circumspectam | circumspectum | circumspectōs | circumspectās | circumspecta | |
| Ablative | circumspectō | circumspectā | circumspectō | circumspectīs | |||
| Vocative | circumspecte | circumspecta | circumspectum | circumspectī | circumspectae | circumspecta | |
Descendants
- Catalan: circumspecte
- French: circonspect
- Galician: circunspecto
- Italian: circospetto
- Portuguese: circunspecto
- Spanish: circunspecto
References
- “circumspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumspectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- after mature deliberation: omnibus rebus circumspectis
- after mature deliberation: omnibus rebus circumspectis