Circe

Borrowed from Latin Circē.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.si/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.si/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)si

Circe

2. (Greek mythology) An enchantress who turned Odysseus's men into pigs.
3. A woman having the characteristics of Circe; an enchantress.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Here is a nice state of affairs. I, at my age, to fall a victim to this modern Circe!

4. (astronomy) 34 Circe, a main belt asteroid.
5. (chess) A chess variant, often used in fairy chess problems, where pieces return to their starting square after being captured.

• (astronomy): 34 Circe, ㉞

• Circean
• plant of Circe

• cerci, ceric

Borrowed from Latin Circē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -irtʃe
• Hyphenation: Cìr‧ce

Circe f

1. (Greek mythology) Circe

• ricce

• Circā

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κίρκη (Kírkē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪr.keː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃir.t͡ʃe]

Circē f sg (genitive Circēs); first declension

1. Circe, a name, particularly the sorceress who appears in Homer's Odyssey.

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only.

• → Catalan: Circe
• → English: Circe
• → Italian: Circe
• → Middle French: Circe
  • French: Circé
• → Sicilian: Circi
• → Spanish: Circe

From Latin Circē, Circa, from Ancient Greek Κίρκη (Kírkē).

Circe f

1. Circe
   • 1570, Saint Augustin de la Cité de Dieu, page 176 (misnumbered as 168):

     Circe entendoit fort bien la vertu des herbes, & inuenta les breuuages pour faire aymer, & fut mariee à Scythe Roy des Sarmates, quelle fiſt mourir de poiſon : & pour ceſte cauſe eſtant chaſſee des citoyens, elle ſ’en fuyt en ie ne ſçay quelle Iſle de l’Oceã toute deſerte : ou (comme aucuns eſcriuent) en vn promontoire qu’on appelle de ſon nom Circee. Il y a d’aucũs qui penſent que Circee ſoit vn^[sic] Iſle, mais c’eſt vn promontoire formé à la mode d’vne Iſle, comme dit Strabon.

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• French: Circé

Borrowed from Latin Circē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθiɾθe/ [ˈθiɾ.θe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾse/ [ˈsiɾ.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iɾθe (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -iɾse (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: Cir‧ce

Circe f

1. (Greek mythology) Circe