| Term | Definition |
| circum | around |
| circuitous | roundabout, indirect |
| circumspect | catious, watchful, prudent |
| circumference | the outer boundary of a circle, the perimeter |
| orbis | circle, anything round |
| orbita | wheel |
| orbit | path of 1 body as it revolves around another, a sphere of influence, a range of action or experience |
| orb | a sphere, anything spherical in shape, a globe carried by a monarch as a symbol of office |
| figura | form, shape |
| configuration | a shape or outline, a method of arrangement |
| figurative | using figures of speech, symbolic, not literal |
| kuklos | wheel, circle |
| cyclic | occurring or moving in cycles |
| encyclopedic | possessing information about many subjects or intensively about 1 subject |