cenyth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cenith, senyth, cenit, cinit, senith

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cenit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnit/, /ˈsɛːnit/

Noun

cenyth

1. (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer)
   • c. 1391, Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe:

     This lyne Meridional ys but a Maner descripcion or the ymagined, that passeth vpon the pooles of þis the world And by the cenyth of owre heued.

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Descendants

• English: zenith