Zirkus
German (Berlin)
noun
Definitions
- (historical) circus arena in Antiquity
- circus kind of entertainment show
- (colloquial) exaggerated and annoying ado; airs; fuss, e.g. of a child, at an event, etc.; dog and pony show
- (colloquial) something complicated and annoying; rigmarole; chore
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circus (circle, ring, racecourse, circus, space for games).
Origin
Latin
circus
Gloss
circle, ring, racecourse, circus, space for games
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- circus English
- *circa Latin
- *circārium Latin
- circa Latin
- circensis Latin
- circiter Latin
- circo Latin
- circulus Latin
- circus Latin
- circō Latin
- Floh German
- Flohzirkus German
- Schule German
- Zirkusschule German
- circo Italian
- circus Dutch, Flemish
- cirque French
- цирк Russian
- cerco Spanish, Castilian
- circo Spanish, Castilian
- κίρκος Ancient Greek
- *sker Proto-Indo-European
- sirkus Norwegian Bokmål
- circo Portuguese
- cyrk Polish
- sirkus Norwegian Nynorsk
- cirkus Serbo-Croatian
- circ Catalan, Valencian
- sirkus Icelandic
- cerc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- curcubeu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bezirc Middle High German
- qark Albanian
- צירק Yiddish
- cerco Old Portuguese
- circ Occitan
- circu Asturian