The story
- Latin · derived fromcircumcīsus
- Old French · derived fromcircumciser
- Middle English · inherited fromcircumcisen
- English todaycircumcise
From Middle English circumcisen, from Old French circumciser (modern French circoncire) and its etymon Latin circumcīsus, the past participle of circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.