cenit
See also: cénit
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech cěniti, from Proto-Slavic *cěniti.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cenit impf
Conjugation edit
Conjugation
Infinitive | cenit, ceniti | Active adjective | cenící |
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Verbal noun | cenění | Passive adjective | ceněný |
Present forms | indicative | imperative | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
1st person | cením | ceníme | — | ceňme |
2nd person | ceníš | ceníte | ceň | ceňte |
3rd person | cení | cení | — | — |
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive cenit. |
Participles | Past participles | Passive participles | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
masculine animate | cenil | cenili | ceněn | ceněni |
masculine inanimate | cenily | ceněny | ||
feminine | cenila | ceněna | ||
neuter | cenilo | cenila | ceněno | ceněna |
Transgressives | present | past |
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masculine singular | ceně | — |
feminine + neuter singular | ceníc | — |
plural | ceníce | — |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From misreading earlier cemt, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”), from Aramaic סֵימִטָא, from Latin sēmĭta.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.nit/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːnit̪]
Noun edit
cenit n (indeclinable) (Medieval Latin)
- (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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Descendants edit
- → Middle English: cenyth, cenith, senyth, cenit, cinit, senith (learned)
- English: zenith
- → Old French: cenit m (learned)
Further reading edit
- 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 edit
Noun edit
cenit
- Alternative spelling of cenyth
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cenit oblique singular, m (oblique plural ceniz or cenitz, nominative singular ceniz or cenitz, nominative plural cenit)
- zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeˈnit/ [θeˈnit̪]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /seˈnit/ [seˈnit̪]
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: ce‧nit
Noun edit
cenit m (plural cenites)
Further reading edit
- “cenit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014