horizon
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
Noun
horizon (plural horizons)
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- (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 stratum
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- Any level line or surface.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
Noun
horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)
Descendants
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
Noun
horizon m (plural horizons)
Derived terms
- bleu horizon
- élargir ses horizons
- horizon des événements
- horizon rationnel
- horizon sensible
- horizonner
- horizontal
- ligne d’horizon
- tour d’horizon
Further reading
- “horizon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch horizon, from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
- Synonyms: kaki langit, ufuk, 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
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Further reading
- “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hoˈriz.zoːn/, [hɔˈrɪz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈrid.d͡zon/, [oˈrid̪ː͡z̪on]
Noun
horizōn m (genitive horizontis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | horizōn | horizontēs |
Genitive | horizontis horizontos |
horizontum horizontium |
Dative | horizontī | horizontibus |
Accusative | horizontem horizonta |
horizontēs horizontās |
Ablative | horizonte | horizontibus |
Vocative | horizōn | horizontēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: horitzó
- → Dutch: horizon
- → Old French: orisonte, orison
- Galician: horizonte
- → German: Horizont
- Italian: orizzonte
- Lombard: orizzont (New Lombard Orthography)
- Mirandese: hourizonte
- Portuguese: horizonte
- Romanian: orizont
- → Russian: горизонт (gorizont)
- Spanish: horizonte
- → Ukrainian: горизо́нт (horyzónt)
References
- “horizon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Limburgish
Noun
horizon f
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