environ

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. To encircle or surround (someone or something).
2. (obsolete) To encircle or surround (someone or something).
3. To encircle or surround (someone or something).
4. To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
5. Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
6. Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
7. Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
8. (obsolete) To amount to or encompass (a space).
9. (obsolete) To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.

Adv

1. (obsolete) In the neighbourhood; around.
2. (obsolete) Almost, nearly.

Noun

A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.

Concetti

circondare

attorniare

accerchiare

cingere

contornare

sinonimi

surround

encompass

surroundings

skirt

ring

💍

invest

beset

encircle

enclose

gird

border

round

vest

wrap

indue

shut in

begird

environment

beleaguer

besiege

circumference

circumvent

compass

🧭

endue

enfold

environs

enwrap

perimeter

Traduzioni

περικυκλώνω

umgeben

kuşatmak

entourer

rodear

muhit

etrafını çevirmek

cercar

περιβάλλω

rodear

circundar

etraf

تماجن

تدور

طوّق

Con il trattino come

en‧vir‧on

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɪnˈvaɪɹən/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: envirounen

Affine francese: environner

Affine catalano: environar

Affine francese antico: avironer

Affine francese medio: avironer

Affine Anglo-Norman: avironer

Affine spagnolo: environar

Ereditato da inglese medio: invyroun

Ereditato da inglese medio: enuyroun

Affine francese: environ

In summary

From Middle English envirounen, enviroun (“to surround in a circle or ring, or on the perimeter; to beset, besiege; to cover, enclose, envelop; to provide a setting or surrounding to; to move in a circle; to move around the perimeter; to go, move, or wander about (a place); to fill or pervade (a place); to run all the way through”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman envirouner [and other forms], Middle French environner, and Old French environner (“to arrange in a circle; to circumnavigate, travel around; to traverse, wander around; to encircle, encompass, surround”) [and other forms] (modern French environner), from environ (adverb) (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming verbs).
cognates
* Catalan environar (obsolete)
* Old French avironer, avironner (Middle French avironer, avironner, Anglo-Norman avironer, aviruner)
* Spanish environar (obsolete)