circonspection
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin circumspectiōnem (“looking around, circumspection”), from circumspiciō (“to look around”). By surface analysis, circonspect + -tion.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
circonspection f (plural circonspections)
- circumspection (attention to all the facts and circumstances)
Further reading[edit]
- “circonspection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.