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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.dɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈnæ.dɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈneɪ.də(ɹ)/, /neɪˈdɪə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.dɪɹ/, /ˈneɪ.dəɹ/, /neɪˈdɪɹ/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
nadir (plural nadirs)
- The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
- Antonym: zenith
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
- […] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]
- (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
- Synonyms: lowest ebb, slough of despond, trough, bathos
- Antonyms: height, peak
- 1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries:
- […] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]
- 1950, Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book:
- In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
- (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
- Synonym: down
- The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
- (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
point of the sky
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figuratively the lowest point
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Verb[edit]
nadir (third-person singular simple present nadirs, present participle nadiring, simple past and past participle nadired)
- (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
References[edit]
- 1860, Henry Taylor, The Beekeepers Manual, page 24.
Further reading[edit]
Nadir (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Azerbaijani[edit]
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nadir (comparative daha nadir, superlative ən nadir)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
As for the English word.
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Noun[edit]
nadir m (plural nadirs)
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Further reading[edit]
- “nadir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
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nadir m
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Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nadir m (plural nadires)
- nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
- (figuratively) nadir (the lowest point)
Romanian[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nadir n (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
declension of nadir (singular only)
Further reading[edit]
- nadir in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nadir m (plural nadires)
- nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nadir (comparative daha nadir, superlative en nadir)
Synonyms[edit]
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