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Middle English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cenit.
Pronunciation
Noun
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)
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