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Who first used the word circa?

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The meaning of the word circa originated in Indo-European times and later became a part of the Greek vocabulary. In the middle 1800's, it assumed its current form of "circa" from the Latin word "circus" meaning circle. It means around and/or about. There is no record of who first coined the word.

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