Translation
horizon
Word origin
From Greek horizon kyklos, the bounding circle, from horizein ('to bound, to divide'). The same Greek verb sits under English horizon and, more distantly, aphorism.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- horizein
- English cognates
- horizon, horizontal, aphorism
Examples
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The sun disappeared below the horizon.
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We saw a ship on the horizon.
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Clouds covered the whole horizon.
Concrete and figurative both, exactly as in English: the line where sea meets sky, and the reach of what somebody knows. Plilarĝigi is to broaden one's horizons and is as much of a cliche in Esperanto as it is here. The adjective horizontala is the flat-versus-upright one and is a separate borrowing, so do not expect horizonta to be waiting for you.
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