different between demonstration vs circa

English

Etymology

From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (“show or explain”), from de- (“of or concerning”) + monstrare (“show”).Morphologically demonstrate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m?n?st?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

demonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)

1. The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
   1. (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. An event at which something will be demonstrated.

   I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.

3. Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
4. A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
5. A show of military force.
6. A mathematical proof.
   • a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:

     He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

Related terms

• demonstrable
• demonstrate
• demonstrator
• monster
• remonstration
• demo

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????????? (demonsutor?shon)

Translations

Anagrams

• nonmeditators

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dem?nsd????o?n/

Noun

demonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)

1. demonstration

Declension

Further reading

• “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?
• Hyphenation: cir?ca

Preposition

circa

1. Approximately, about, around.

Translations

Anagrams

• ARCIC, Ricca, craic

Czech

Alternative forms

• cirka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?rka]

Adverb

circa

1. circa, approximately

Synonyms

• cca

Further reading

• circa in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• circa in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Alternative forms

• ca.
• c.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r.ka?/
• Hyphenation: cir?ca

Preposition

circa

1. circa: about, approximately

Adverb

circa

1. circa: about, approximately

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?.ka/

Preposition

circa

1. approximately, about

German

Alternative forms

• zirka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s??ka]

Adverb

circa

1. circa

Synonyms

• etwa
• ungefähr

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ir.ka/
• Hyphenation: cìr?ca
• Rhymes: -irka

Preposition

circa

1. regarding, concerning

Adverb

circa

1. about, approximately

Anagrams

• ricca

Latin

Etymology

A later form for circum, or from circum + e?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kir.ka?/, [?k?rkä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??ir.ka/, [?t??irk?]

Adverb

circ? (not comparable)

1. around; about

Preposition

circ? (+ accusative)

1. around; near; about
2. regarding, concerning

Related terms

• circus

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• circa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• circa in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circa.

Adverb

circa

1. approximately, about, or so

Synonyms

• cam