circumcise

English

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Etymology

From Middle English circumcisen, from Old French circumciser (modern French circoncire) and its etymon Latin circumcīsus, the past participle of circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəːkəmsʌɪz/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɚkəmˌsaɪz/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧cise

Verb

circumcise (third-person singular simple present circumcises, present participle circumcising, simple past and past participle circumcised)

  1. To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
    • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 349:
      The woman then explained [...] "I was married to this husband, who is one of their great men, and who is, moreover, a Jew, for there are different religions among them; and I also am a Jewess: and when this child was born, I spake unto my husband, and entreated of him, that he would get a Moohel to circumcise the babe; and so he brought thee hither."
  2. (sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.
  3. (military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.

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References

  1. ^ “circumcise, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of circumcīsus.

Pronunciation

Participle

circumcīse

  1. vocative masculine singular of circumcīsus

Etymology 2

    From circumcīsus (“cut, reduced”) + -ē (“-ly”).

    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    circumcīsē (comparative circumcīsius, superlative circumcīsissimē)

    1. concisely, briefly

    References

    • “circumcise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “circumcise”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Romanian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kumˈt͡ʃi.se/
    • Rhymes: -ise
    • Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧ci‧se

    Adjective

    circumcise f pl or n pl

    1. feminine/neuter plural of circumcis (“circumcised”)

    Verb

    circumcise

    1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of circumcide (“circumcise”)
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