nadir
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”)
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈneɪˌdɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈnæd.ɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈneɪ.də(ɹ)/, /neɪˈdɪə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈneɪˌdɪɚ/, /ˈneɪ.dɚ/, /neɪˈdɪɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ), -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun edit
nadir (plural nadirs)
- The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
- Antonym: zenith
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
- […] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]
- (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
- 1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries:
- […] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]
- 1950, Elizabeth Janeway, edited by Helen Hull, The Writer’s Book:
- In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
- The myth describes the dangerous moment of the nadir, the dead of winter, the moment when it is not known whether the world will be re-created and another cycle will bring on another spring.
- (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
- Synonym: down
- The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
- (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
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point of the sky
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figuratively the lowest point
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Verb edit
nadir (third-person singular simple present nadirs, present participle nadiring, simple past and past participle nadired)
- (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
References edit
- Henry Taylor (1860) The Beekeepers Manual, page 24
Further reading edit
- Nadir (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Azerbaijani edit
Cyrillic | надир | |
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Abjad |
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As for the English word.
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nadir m (plural nadirs)
Further reading edit
- “nadir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Galician edit
Noun edit
nadir m (plural nadires)
- nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
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- “nadir” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
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nadir m
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير (naẓīr).
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nadir m inan
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Declension of nadir
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- Hyphenation: na‧dir
Noun edit
nadir m (plural nadires)
- nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
- (figuratively) nadir (the lowest point)
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nadir n (uncountable)
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declension of nadir (singular only)
Further reading edit
- nadir in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nadir m (plural nadires)
- nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
Further reading edit
- “nadir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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nadir