ὁρίζων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Substantive noun from ὁρίζων κύκλος (horízōn kúklos, literally “separating circle”), from the present active participle of ὁρίζω (horízō, “I mark out a boundary”) and κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, sphere”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ho.rí.zɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)oˈri.zon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈri.zon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈri.zon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈri.zon/
Noun
ὁρῐ́ζων • (horízōn) m (genitive ὁρῐ́ζοντος); third declension
- horizon
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ὁρῐ́ζων; τοῦ ὁρῐ́ζοντος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὁρῐ́ζων ho horízōn | τὼ ὁρῐ́ζοντε tṑ horízonte | οἱ ὁρῐ́ζοντες hoi horízontes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὁρῐ́ζοντος toû horízontos | τοῖν ὁρῐζόντοιν toîn horizóntoin | τῶν ὁρῐζόντων tôn horizóntōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὁρῐ́ζοντῐ tôi horízonti | τοῖν ὁρῐζόντοιν toîn horizóntoin | τοῖς ὁρῐ́ζουσῐ / ὁρῐ́ζουσῐν toîs horízousi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὁρῐ́ζοντᾰ tòn horízonta | τὼ ὁρῐ́ζοντε tṑ horízonte | τοὺς ὁρῐ́ζοντᾰς toùs horízontas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὁρῐ́ζον horízon | ὁρῐ́ζοντε horízonte | ὁρῐ́ζοντες horízontes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: horizōn (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: горизо́нт m (gorizónt)
Further reading
- “ὁρίζων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὁρίζων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὁρίζων - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.