cenit
See also: cénit
Czech
Etymology
From Old Czech cěniti, from Proto-Slavic *cěniti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɛɲɪt]
Verb
cenit impf
- to value, to prize
Conjugation
Conjugation
Present forms | indicative | imperative | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | singular | plural | |
1st person | cením | ceníme | — | ceňme |
2nd person | ceníš | ceníte | ceň | ceňte |
3rd person | cení | cení | — | — |
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive cenit. |
Participles | Past participles | Passive participles | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | singular | plural | |
masculine animate | cenil | cenili | ceněn | ceněni |
masculine inanimate | cenily | ceněny | ||
feminine | cenila | ceněna | ||
neuter | cenilo | cenila | ceněno | ceněna |
Transgressives | present | past |
---|---|---|
masculine singular | ceně | — |
feminine + neuter singular | ceníc | — |
plural | ceníce | — |
Related terms
Related terms
- ocenit
- docenit
- podcenit
- přecenit
- cena
- cennost
- ceník
- ceněný
- cenný
Further reading
- ceniti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- ceniti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- cenit in Internetová jazyková příručka
Latin
Alternative forms
- ceniz
Etymology
From misreading earlier cemt, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”), from Aramaic סֵימִטָא, from Latin sēmĭta.
Pronunciation
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.nit/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːnit̪]
Noun
cenit n (indeclinable) (Medieval Latin)
- (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Plato Tiburtinus to this entry?)
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- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cenit.
Descendants
- → Middle English: cenyth, cenith, senyth, cenit, cinit, senith (learned)
- English: zenith
- → Old French: cenit m (learned)
- Middle French: zenith
- French: zénith
- Middle French: zenith
Further reading
- cenith in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Paul Kunitzsch, The Arabs and the Stars: Texts and Traditions on the Fixed Stars and Their Influence in Medieval Europe, Routledge (→ISBN), 2017: Latin translators borrowed it as cemt/zemt capitis, and finally cemt/zemt was misread and miswritten, in Latin, as cenit/Zenit.
Middle English
Noun
cenit
- Alternative spelling of cenyth
Old French
Noun
cenit m (oblique plural ceniz or cenitz, nominative singular ceniz or cenitz, nominative plural cenit)
- zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
Descendants
- Middle French: zenith
- French: zénith
Spanish
Alternative forms
- cénit, zenit
- zénit (rare)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”), from the fuller form سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʾs, “direction of the head”). The -ni- for -m- is sometimes thought to be due to a misreading of the three strokes, which is plausible, though it could be a mere phonetic approximation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeˈnit/ [θeˈnit̪]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /seˈnit/ [seˈnit̪]
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: ce‧nit
Noun
cenit m (plural cenites)
- zenith
- Synonym: auge
Further reading
- “cenit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014