horizon
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French orizon, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horizon (plural horizons)
- The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.
- With clinical researchers hard at work, a new treatment is on the horizon.
- 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:
- The Indians of the Americas totaled no less than 70 million when the foreign conquerors appeared on the horizon; a century and a half later they had been reduced to 3.5 million.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- 2003, Miguel de Beistegui, Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, →ISBN, page 157:
- Only mortality, this irreducible and primordial horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- Any level line or surface.
- (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
Derived termsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: horizon
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
PronunciationEdit
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: horizons
- Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon
NounEdit
horizon m (plural horizons)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “horizon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch horizon, from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horizon (first-person possessive horizonku, second-person possessive horizonmu, third-person possessive horizonnya)
- horizon:
- the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- Synonym: cakrawala
- (geoglogy) a specific layer of soil or strata.
- the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- (in extension) sky, atmosphere, space
- Synonyms: ambara, angkasa, awang-awang, bumantara, cakrawala, dirgantara, langit, udara
CompoundsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hoˈriz.zoːn/, [hɔˈɾɪz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈrid.d͡zon/, [ɔˈɾid̪ː͡z̪ɔn]
NounEdit
horizōn m (genitive horizontis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | horizōn | horizontēs |
Genitive | horizontis | horizontum |
Dative | horizontī | horizontibus |
Accusative | horizontem | horizontēs |
Ablative | horizonte | horizontibus |
Vocative | horizōn | horizontēs |
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- horizon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- horizon in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934