Circa
Preposition
used with Accusative only.
The circumflected accents
are used to mark the vowels' length.
Non figurative usage
1. Space: around,
about, near
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Milites fossam circa murum duxerunt.
The soldiers
prolonged the ditch around the wall.
2. Time: about
-
Circa eandem horam et alii revertuntur.
About
the same time some others came back.
Figurative usage
At numerals: at
/ in / of approximately
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natus circa 1500 born
in approximately 1500
-
circa ducentum hostium about
two hundreds of the enemies
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