cirque
/sɜːk//sɝk/
- n.
- 圆形场地，圆环，环形排列
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
cirque
词源说明
Borrowed from French cirque (“circular arena; cirque”), from Latin circus (“circle, ring”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring; racecourse, circus”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”). Doublet of circus.
释义
名词noun
- 1historicalA Roman circus.
- 2(geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.
- 3dated or literarySomething in the shape of a circle or ring