cirque
Meanings
noun
- A Roman circus.
- A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.
- Something in the shape of a circle or ring.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French cirque (“circular arena; cirque”), from Latin circus (“circle, ring”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring; racecourse, circus”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”). Doublet of circus.
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