'All the way around'.
For example, to circumnavigate the world is to travel all the way around it.
Circumference is the line that is all around a circle.
To circumcise something is to cut all the way around something.
The root Circum means "Round"
Around in Latin can be undique, circum or circa.
"Encircle" is a word that contains the root word "circum." It means to surround or form a circle around something.
The word is "circum", as in circumnavigate or circumference.
the answer to your question what does the word circum mean in the word circamspect is AROUND.
Circum means around. This was one of my stems.
"Circum" is a Latin root and means "around." "Circus" is so called from the rings enclosing the show, (three-ring circus). So, "circumnavigate" means to navigate around, as in circumnavigate the globe. "Circumcise" means to cut around, (from the same root as "incision"). There are 204 words containing the root "circum" in Webster's Second International dictionary.
The root is the prefix.Examples:Auto (automobile, autotech, autobot.. lol)Circum (circumstance, circumsize, circumvent)
"Circum" eg. circumspect , circumference , circumduction
Circum- as in "Circumference" of the actual object that is and or will be thwarted to any extent, to be as un graphic as possible
to take something off cut around - - circum - around (e.g. in circumference & circumnavigate), cise - cut (as in scissors & excise)
"circumspectus" is Latin for "look around, take heed"."Circum" = around"Specere" = to lookThe word is have had its origins in the late 14th to the early 15th century.