horizon
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English
Etymology
From Old French orizon, 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.
- (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
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Further reading
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
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: horizons
- Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon
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 , 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
Compounds
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 Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).
Pronunciation
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
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
- Veldeke spelling spelling of Hooriṣǫn