cenyth
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cenit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cenyth
- (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