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circumflectere

circumflectere [CL] 1 to curve round. pollicem ‥ curvatum indice circumflexo ‥ a fronte praecinges Bede TR 1; aequinoctialis, quae media est zona, aequali spatio terras super subtusque ~itur Ib. 34. 2 to circumflex (gram.). b (p. ppl. circumflexus as sb. m., sc. accentus) circumflex (accent). si natura paenultima longa fuerit, sine ambiguo ~itur, ut ‘passerînus’ Aldh. PR 128; hic ‘ma’ cum dicitur ‘māter’, longitudine sui circumflexus tantum temporis bis occupat quantum ‘pa’ semel cum acute dicitur ‘păter’ Bede AM 2351; apud Grecos penultima in obliquis ~itur Bacon Tert. 237.  b ~us nomen est ante unam sillabam a fine habens accentum, ut est cæ̂li ‥, caelôrum Aldh. PR 141; ~o non utimur ad presens Bacon Tert. 238.

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