cenyth
Middle English
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editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin cenit.
Pronunciation
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editcenyth
- (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
- c. 1391, Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe:
- This lyne Meridional ys but a Maner descripcion or the ymagined, that passeth vpon the pooles of þis the world And by the cenyth of owre heued.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Trevisa to this entry?)
Descendants
edit- English: zenith
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