horizon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horizōn), from ὅρος (horos, “boundary”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /həˈraɪzn/, X-SAMPA: /h@"r\aIzn/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

horizon (plural horizons)

1. The horizontal line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky.
2. The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest.
3. (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
4. (archaeology, US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.

Synonyms

• (line separating Earth and sky): skysill, skyline

Derived terms

• archaeological horizon
• artificial horizon
• event horizon

Related terms

• horizontal

Translations

line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky

• Arabic: أفق (ar) (ʾúfuq) m (plural: آفاق (ar) (ʾāfāq) m pl)
• Armenian: հորիզոն (hy) (horizon)
• Asturian: horizonte (ast) m
• Bashkir: офоҡ (оfoq)
• Belarusian: гарызонт (be) (haryzónt) m
• Bulgarian: хоризонт (bg) (horizónt) m
• Catalan: horitzó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地平線 (cmn), 地平线 (cmn) (dìpíngxiàn), 天际 (cmn) (tiānjì), 天邊 (cmn), 天边 (cmn) (tiānbiān)

• Czech: obzor (cs) m, horizont (cs) m
• Dutch: horizon (nl) m, horizont (nl) m
• Egyptian: 𓈌𓏏𓉐 (Axt)
• Esperanto: horizonto (eo)
• Estonian: silmapiir (et), horisont (et)
• Finnish: (1,2) horisontti (fi)
• French: horizon (fr) m
• Galician: horizonte (gl) m
• German: Horizont (de)
• Greek: ορίζοντας (el) (orízontas) m
• Hungarian: horizont (hu)
• Icelandic: sjóndeildarhringur (is) m, sjónbaugur (is) m
• Ido: horizonto (io)
• Indonesian: horison (id)
• Italian: orizzonte (it)

• Japanese: 地平線 (ja) (ちへいせん, chiheisen), 水平線 (ja) (すいへいせん, suiheisen) (at water area)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاسۆ (ckb)

• Low German: Kimm (nds) f, Kimming (nds) f
• Norwegian: horisont (no) m
• Persian: افق (fa) (ofoq)
• Polish: horyzont (pl) m
• Portuguese: horizonte (pt) m
• Romanian: orizont (ro) n, orizonturi (ro) n pl
• Russian: горизонт (ru) (gorizónt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: fàire (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хоризонт (sh) m

  Roman: horizont (sh) m

• Slovak: horizont (sk) m, obzor (sk) m
• Slovene: obzorje (sl) n
• Spanish: horizonte (es) m
• Swedish: horisont (sv) c
• Turkish: ufuk (tr)
• Ukrainian: горизонт (uk) (horyzónt) m
• Volapük: horit (vo)
• Welsh: gorwel (cy)

See also

• vertical

External links

• Horizon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From Latin horizon, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horizōn), from ὅρος (horos, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/, X-SAMPA: /O.Ri.zO~/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophone: horizons
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon

Noun

horizon m (plural horizons)

1. horizon

Derived terms

• bleu horizon
• horizon rationnel
• horizon sensible
• horizonner
• horizontal

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Latin

Noun

horīzon (genitive horīzontis); m, third declension

1. horizon

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	horīzon	horīzontēs
genitive	horīzontis	horīzontum
dative	horīzontī	horīzontibus
accusative	horīzontem	horīzontēs
ablative	horīzonte	horīzontibus
vocative	horīzon	horīzontēs