circumlationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin circumlātiō (“a carrying around, circulation”), from circumferō (“to carry around”), from circum (“around”) + ferō (“to carry”).

名詞

circumlation (uncountable)

1. (philosophy, cosmology) A cycle, circulation, or rotation; the movement of something in a circular course.
   • c. 300 CE, Calcidius, chapter 115, in Commentarius in Platonis Timaeum, De Temporis Habitu, page 161, line 10:

     cotidianam temporis circumlationem

     the daily rotation of time

使用する際の注意点

In Calcidius's commentary on Plato's Timaeus, this term appears in a cosmological context referring to the daily cycle or rotation of time. The rhetorical sense of "circumlocution" or "periphrasis" is a later development and remains rare.

同意語

• cycle
• rotation
• circulation

関連する語

• circumfero
• circuitus