cenitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɛː.nit]

名詞

cenit n (indeclinable) (Medieval Latin)

1. (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cenit.

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派生した語

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

Further reading

• "cenith", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.