cenyth

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cenit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛnit/, /ˈsɛːnit/

Noun

cenyth

  1. (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.
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Descendants

  • English: zenith