nadir
English
Etymology
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
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Noun
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 where we stand.
- 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.
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Verb
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
- 1860, Henry Taylor, The Beekeepers Manual, page 24.
Further reading
- Nadir (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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French
Etymology
As for the English word.
Pronunciation
Noun
nadir m (plural nadirs)
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Further reading
- “nadir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "ML." is not valid. See WT:LOL. nadir, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nadir m
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Portuguese
Noun
nadir m (plural nadires)
- nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
- (figuratively) nadir (the lowest point)
Turkish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic نادر
Adjective
nadir
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