different between southern vs circinus

English

Etymology

From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English s?þerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?nijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?un-, *sh?wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh?wl? (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian s?thern, s?dern (“southern”), Middle Low German s?dern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”). More at south.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?ð?n/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?ð?n/, enPR: s?th??rn
• (rare, parts of Ontario and Canadian prairies) IPA^(key): /?sa?ð?n/, enPR: south??rn

Adjective

southern (comparative more southern, superlative most southern)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
2. Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.

3. Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

Synonyms

• southerly
• austral
• meridional

Antonyms

• northern
• boreal
• septentrional

Derived terms

• southern cassowary

Translations

Noun

southern (plural southerns)

1. Synonym of southerner

See also

• eastern
• western
• oriental
• occidental

Anagrams

• turnshoe

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kírkinos)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kir.ki.nus/, [?k?rk?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??ir.t??i.nus/, [?t??irt??inus]

Noun

circinus m (genitive circin?); second declension

1. A pair of compasses; a tool for measuring distances or constructing a circle.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• circinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• circinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• circinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• circinus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• circinus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin