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Russian
Etymology
From не́бо (nébo) + -о- (-o-) + скло́н (sklón). Coined by the poet Ivan Ivanovich Martynov (Иван Иванович Мартынов) in 1793.[1] It has also been interpreted as a calque of the Latin term declinatio caeli (inclination of the sky), meaning geographical latitude.[2][3]
Pronunciation
Noun
небоскло́н • (nebosklón) m inan (genitive небоскло́на, nominative plural небоскло́ны, genitive plural небоскло́нов)
- skyline, horizon, the place at which the earth and sky appear to meet
1793 March, Иванъ Мартыновъ, “Къ бардамъ”, in Санктпетербургскїй Меркурїй, volume 1, number 3, Санктпетербургъ, pages 228–229:Или на дикомъ холмѣ
Подъ яснымъ небосклономъ- Ili na dikom holmě
Pod jasnym nebosklonom - Or on a wild hill
Under the clear sky
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Виноградов, В.В. (1999) История слов, Москва: Российская академия наук, небосклон, pages 364–368
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nieboskłon”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego: Tom 2 (L – P), Warszawa: Wydawnictvo naukowe PWN, page 295
- ^ cf. Vitruvius (1912) “Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura (Liber nonus, chapter 7, section 1)”, in Perseus Digital Library