cirque
French
noun
Definitions
- circus
- (geology) cirque
- (historical) a circular arena, such as in the ancient Roman Empire
- (colloquial) a mess#Noun_2|mess, a disorder
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
輪
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- circus English
- cirque English
- semicirque English
- *circa Latin
- *circārium Latin
- circa Latin
- circensis Latin
- circiter Latin
- circo Latin
- circulus Latin
- circus Latin
- circō Latin
- Zirkus German
- circo Italian
- circus Dutch, Flemish
- 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
- سيرك Arabic
- circ Catalan, Valencian
- sirkus Icelandic
- cerc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- curcubeu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- سیرک Persian
- sirk Turkish
- xiếc Vietnamese
- bezirc Middle High German
- qark Albanian
- צירק Yiddish
- cerco Old Portuguese
- circ Occitan
- circu Asturian
- សៀក Central Khmer