horizon
English
Etymology
From Old French orizon, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /həˈɹaɪzən/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
horizon (plural horizons)
- The visible, horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- A tall building was visible on the horizon.
- The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest.
- Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- 2003, Miguel de Beistegui, Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, →ISBN, page 157:
- Only mortality, this irreducible and primoridal horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.
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- (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
- (archaeology, US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
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Translations
line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦoː.ri.zɔn/
Audio (file)
Noun
horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: horizons
- Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon
Noun
horizon m (plural horizons)
Derived terms
- bleu horizon
- horizon rationnel
- horizon sensible
- horizonner
- horizontal
Further reading
- “horizon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈho.ri.zoːn/, [ˈhɔ.rɪ.zoːn]
Noun
horizōn m (genitive horizontos or horizontis); third
Inflection
Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ōn. Alternative genitive singular and plural and accusative plural may be attested or may be reconstructed by lexicographers due to horizōn having been imported from the Ancient Greek masculine present active participle.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | horizōn | horizontēs |
| genitive | horizontis horizontos |
horizontum horizontium |
| dative | horizontī | horizontibus |
| accusative | horizonta | horizontēs horizontās |
| ablative | horizonte | horizontibus |
| vocative | horizōn | horizontēs |
Descendants
References
- horizon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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