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Definition: Circe |
CirceNoun1. (Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Circe" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bird". |
Date "Circe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Circe (2 syl.). A sorceress. She lived in the island of Ææa. When Ulysses landed there, Circ turned his companions into swine, but Ulysses resisted this metamorphose by virtue of a herb called moly, given him by Mercury. "Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmd cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine?" Milton: Comus, 50- 53. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CIRCE | Dutch | Centrum voor informatie en documentatie van de Europese Gemeenschappen | N/A |
CIRCE | English | Cyclotron isocentric neutron therapy facility radiation physics,Essen | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Motive | Prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor; instigator, firebrand, incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist. |
Physical Pleasure | Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance). |
Sorcerer | Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Circe |
| English words defined with "Circe": Circean ♦ Moly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Circe": Comus ♦ Zoilos. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Circe" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Circe), Hungarian (Circe), Latin (Circe), Portuguese (Circe), Scottish (See <A HREF="mf02.html#cearc">cearc</A>), Spanish (Circe). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Circe (1964) The Enchantress Circe (1924) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Odysseus attacking Circe, Etruscan mirror - New York / F. Eudell. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat / E. Delaney del. ; Cruickshank scp. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Honduras | In terms of national reconstruction efforts and participation in international public bids in general, foreign firms engaged in the execution of construction, design, consulting, and rehabilitation projects are required, under the State Contracting Law, to register provisionally at the Company Registration and Classification Committee of Civil Engineers (CIRCE). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Circe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Circe" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Circe": cup of Circe. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
circe | 127 | circe salon | 4 |
circe de soleil | 14 | circe de sol | 4 |
circe de sole | 11 | circe aveda | 3 |
circe du soleil | 11 | circe com sl stan yacht | 3 |
circe day spa | 6 | 11 9mm circe | 3 |
circe de solei | 5 | circe du solei | 3 |
circe du soliel | 5 | circe salon spa | 3 |
circe de soliel | 5 | circe picture | 3 |
circe enterprise | 4 | circe de | 3 |
circe de solie | 4 | circe spa | 3 |
circe greek mythology | 4 | circe invidiosa | 2 |
biomedical circe | 4 | circe odysseus | 2 |
circe de soile | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Circe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чародейка (charmer, enchantress, witch), Прелъстителка, Цирцея. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | CIRCE (European Communities Information and Documentary Research Centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Kirko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ίίρκη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Circe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ircecay Circe. (various references) Цирцея. (various references) cirka. (various references) Circe. (various references) Kirke, Büyüleyici Kimse (bewitcher, charmer, fascinator), Ýçkiyle Erkekleri Domuz Yapan Kadın. (various references) Фатальна Жінка, Цирцея, Спокусниця. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Circe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Circe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carce, Cece, Cerc, Cerec, Cicek, Cimco, Circaea, Circeo, Cirkit, Ciucci, Corca, Dirce, Icorec, Icpc, Kirche, Zirkzee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cerci, ceric. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-r" | |
-1 letter: cire, rice. | |
-2 letters: ice, ire, rec, rei. | |
-3 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-r" | |
+1 letter: cercis, chicer, cicero, circle, cleric, cretic. | |
+2 letters: acerbic, breccia, caprice, carices, centric, ceramic, cerotic, choicer, choreic, ciceros, cicoree, circled, circler, circles, circlet, clerics, clicker, cockier, cornice, cretics, crevice, cricked, cricket, crickey, crocein, crocine, eccrine, icteric, orectic, racemic. | |
+3 letters: accredit, acentric, aircheck, bicycler, breccial, breccias, caesuric, caprices, catchier, celeriac, ceramics, cercaria, cercises, cerebric, cervical, cervices, chancier, cherubic, chicaner, chimeric, choleric, cicerone, ciceroni, cicorees, cincture, circlers, circlets, circuses, clerical, clickers, clincher, cocinera, codirect, coercing, coercion, coercive, concerti, conciser, copremic, coprince, corniced, cornices, corniche, cornicle, cortices, crescive, cresylic, creviced, crevices, cricetid, crickets, croceine, croceins, crocoite, cruciate, crucible, crucifer, curacies, curlicue, curricle, electric, enchoric, encircle, eucritic, glyceric, icterics, licencer, licorice, mercuric, necrotic, occupier, practice, precinct, recircle, ricercar, ricochet, tricycle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 72 63 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. .-. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01110010 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i r c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0072 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3775846971 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | есперанто, esperanton, εσπεράντο, eszperanto, eszperantó, эсперанто, esperanto, esperanto dili | |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hongaarse, Ούγγρος, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, Ρώσος, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, Spaans, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglan, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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