Circus

sėr′kus, n. a circular building for the exhibition of games: a place for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship: a group of houses arranged in the form of a circle: applied to nature, as, e.g., high hills surrounding a plain.— n. Cirque (sėrk), a circus: a ring of some sort. [L. circus ; cog. with Gr. kirkos .]