See also: cénit

Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech cěniti, from Proto-Slavic *cěniti.

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Verb

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cenit impf

  1. to value, to prize

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Further reading

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  • ceniti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • ceniti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • cenit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Latin

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Etymology

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From misreading earlier cemt, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, direction, path), from Aramaic סֵימִטָא, from Latin sēmĭta.

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Noun

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cenit n (indeclinable) (Medieval Latin)

  1. (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Plato Tiburtinus to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor to this entry?)

Descendants

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  • Middle English: cenyth, cenith, senyth, cenit, cinit, senith (learned)
    • English: zenith
  • Old French: cenit m (learned)

Further reading

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  • cenith in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Paul Kunitzsch, The Arabs and the Stars: Texts and Traditions on the Fixed Stars and Their Influence in Medieval Europe, Routledge (→ISBN), 2017: Latin translators borrowed it as cemt/zemt capitis, and finally cemt/zemt was misread and miswritten, in Latin, as cenit/Zenit.

Middle English

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Noun

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cenit

  1. Alternative spelling of cenyth

Old French

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Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “From the Medieval Latin cenit?”

Noun

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cenit oblique singularm (oblique plural ceniz or cenitz, nominative singular ceniz or cenitz, nominative plural cenit)

  1. zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)

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Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, direction, path), from the fuller form سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʔs, direction of the head). The -ni- for -m- is sometimes thought to be due to a misreading of the three strokes, which is plausible, though it could be a mere phonetic approximation.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θeˈnit/ [θeˈnit̪]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈnit/ [seˈnit̪]
  • Rhymes: -it
  • Syllabification: ce‧nit

Noun

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cenit m (plural cenites)

  1. zenith
    Synonym: auge

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