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• ca., ca, or c.; rarely cca., cir. or circ. (abbreviations)

Borrowed from Latin circa.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɜːkə/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɝkə/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kə
• Hyphenation: cir‧ca

circa

1. Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)
   Julius Caesar visited this area circa 50 BC.

approximately, about, around

• Arabic: حَوَالِي (ḥawālī)
  Egyptian Arabic: حوالي (ḥawālī)

• Armenian: մոտ (hy) (mot), մոտավորապես (hy) (motavorapes)

• Bulgarian: около (bg) (okolo), приблизително (bg) (priblizitelno)

• Catalan: circa (ca)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 大約 / 大约 (zh) (dàyuē)

• Czech: přibližně (cs), cirka (cs)

• Danish: cirka (da)

• Dutch: circa (nl)

• Esperanto: ĉirkaŭ (eo)

• Faroese: umleið

• Finnish: noin (fi)

• French: (with a measure) environ (fr), (with a date) vers (fr)

• Georgian: დაახლოებით (daaxloebit)

• German: ungefähr (de), etwa (de), um (de), circa (de), zirka (de)

• Greek: περίπου (el) (perípou), περ. (el) (per.)

• Hebrew: בקירוב (be'qiruv), בסביבות (be'svivot)

• Hungarian: cirka (hu), körülbelül (hu), nagyjából (hu), hozzávetőleg (hu)

• Icelandic: um það bil (is), circa (is), sirka

• Italian: circa (it)

• Japanese: 約… (ja) (yaku), 大体… (ja) (daitai), …位 (ja) (kurai; gurai), …頃 (ja) (…ごろ, goro), およそ… (ja) (oyoso)

• Korean: […] 경(頃) ([ … ] gyeong), 대략(大略) (ko) (daeryak)

• Macedonian: о́колу (ókolu), при́ближно (príbližno), ци́рка (círka)

• Norwegian: cirka (no)

• Persian: حوالی (fa) (havâli-ye)

• Polish: circa (pl)

• Portuguese: cerca de, aproximadamente (pt)

• Russian: приблизи́тельно (ru) (priblizítelʹno), приме́рно (ru) (primérno), о́коло (ru) (ókolo) (+ genitive case)

• Spanish: cerca de, aproximadamente (es)

• Swedish: cirka (sv)

• Thai: ประมาณ (th) (bprà-maan)

• Tibetan: ཡས་མས (yas mas)

• Turkish: aşağı yukarı (tr)

• Udmurt: ог (og)

• Vietnamese: khoảng (vi)

• Volapük: za (vo)

• circum-

• ARCIC, Ricca, craic

• cirka

• IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɪrka]

circa

1. circa, approximately
   Synonym: cca

• “circa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “circa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• ca.
• c.

Borrowed from Latin circa.

• IPA(key): /ˈsɪr.kaː/
• Hyphenation: cir‧ca

circa

1. circa: about, approximately

circa

1. circa: about, approximately
   Synonyms: grofweg, pakweg, omstreeks, ongeveer, plusminus, ruwweg, zo'n, pak hem beet

Borrowed from Latin circa.

• IPA(key): /siʁ.ka/

circa

1. approximately, about

• zirka
• IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɪʁka]

circa

1. circa
   Synonyms: etwa, ungefähr

• “circa” in Duden online
• “circa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “circa” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from Latin circā.

• IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ka/
• Rhymes: -irka
• Hyphenation: cìr‧ca

circa

1. regarding, concerning

circa

1. about, approximately

• craci, ricca
• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkir.kaː/, [ˈkɪrkäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ka/, [ˈt͡ʃirkä]

A later form for circum, or from circum + eā.

The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.

circā (not comparable)

1. around; about
2. on both sides

circā (+ accusative)

1. around; near; about
2. regarding, concerning
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ephesii.6.22:
     quem misi ad vos in hoc ipsum ut cognoscatis quae circa nos sunt et consoletur corda vestra
     Whom I have sent to you for this very thing, so that you can know things that are about us, and so that he can comfort your hearts.

• circātor

• circus

• Asturian: cerca, cierca

• Catalan: cerca, circa

• Dutch: circa

• English: circa

• French: circa

• German: circa

• Italian: circa

• Norwegian Bokmål: cirka

• Portuguese: cerca

• Romanian: circa

• Sicilian: circa

• Spanish: cerca, circa

• “circa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “circa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• "circa", 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)

• circa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• circa in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

Ultimately related to etymology 1. Sense 4 is only attested in the form cerca(s); see there for more.

circa f (genitive circae); first declension (Medieval Latin)[1][2]

1. patrol, watch

2. episcopal visit

3. inquiry, inquest

4. defensive enclosure, moat

5. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “2. circa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 180

6. ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “circa”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 178

Unadapted borrowing from Latin circā.

• IPA(key): /ˈt͡sir.ka/
• Rhymes: -irka
• Syllabification: cir‧ca

circa

1. (literary) circa, nearly, almost (in close approximation)
   Synonyms: blisko, koło, mniej więcej, niespełna, niemal, około, prawie, w przybliżeniu
   Na świecie żyje circa 9 mld ludzi. ― There are circa 9 billion people in the world.

• circa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• circa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin circa.

circa

1. approximately, about, or so
   Synonym: cam

From Latin circā.

• IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθiɾka/ [ˈθiɾ.ka]
• IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsiɾka/ [ˈsiɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -iɾka
• Syllabification: cir‧ca

circa

1. circa

• “circa”, 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