circulate

The story

1. Late Latin · derived fromcirculō“to make circular, encircle”
2. Late Latin · borrowed fromcirculātus
3. English todaycirculate

Borrowed from Late Latin circulātus, perfect passive participle of Late Latin circulō (“to make circular, encircle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), a later collateral form of circulor (“form a circle (of men) around oneself”), from circulus (“a circle”). See also Middle English circulat(e) (“(alchemy) changed by continuous distillation in a closed vessel”).