circulate

Borrowed from Latin circulatus, past participle of Late Latin circulare (“make circular, encircle”), a later collateral form of circulari (“form a circle (of men) around oneself”), from circulus (“a circle”)

• enPR: sər'kü-lāt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɚˌkju.leɪt/

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circulate (third-person singular simple present circulates, present participle circulating, simple past and past participle circulated)

1. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit
2. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
3. to move from person to person, as at a party
4. to spread or disseminate

   to circulate money or gossip

5. to become widely known
6. (mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.

• put about
• spread
• disseminate

• circulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• circulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

circulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of circulare
2. second-person plural imperative of circulare
3. feminine plural of circulato

circulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of circulō