zenit

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [zəˈnit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [zeˈnit]
• Rhymes: -it

zenit m (plural zenits)

1. zenith

• “zenit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “zenit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “zenit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “zenit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

zenit

1. zenith

• “zenit”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Borrowed from Latin zenit.

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛnɪt]

zenit m inan

1. zenith

   Synonym: nadhlavník

• “zenit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “zenit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin cenit (see further there).

zenit

1. (uncountable) zenith

Borrowed from Latin cenit, from Old Spanish [Term?], from Arabic سَمْت (samt).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzeːnɪt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ze‧nit

zenit n (uncountable)

1. (astronomy) zenith

• azimut

• inzet, zet in

Borrowed from German Zenit,^[1] from Medieval Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”) which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سَمْت الرَأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛnit]
• Hyphenation: ze‧nit
• Rhymes: -it

zenit (plural zenitek)

1. (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir)
2. (figuratively) zenith (highest point or state; peak)

   Synonyms: csúcspont, tetőpont

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	zenit	zenitek
accusative	zenitet	zeniteket
dative	zenitnek	zeniteknek
instrumental	zenittel	zenitekkel
causal-final	zenitért	zenitekért
translative	zenitté	zenitekké
terminative	zenitig	zenitekig
essive-formal	zenitként	zenitekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	zenitben	zenitekben
superessive	zeniten	zeniteken
adessive	zenitnél	zeniteknél
illative	zenitbe	zenitekbe
sublative	zenitre	zenitekre
allative	zenithez	zenitekhez
elative	zenitből	zenitekből
delative	zenitről	zenitekről
ablative	zenittől	zenitektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	zenité	zeniteké
non-attributive possessive - plural	zenitéi	zenitekéi

Possessive forms of zenit
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	zenitem	zenitjeim
2nd person sing.	zenited	zenitjeid
3rd person sing.	zenitje	zenitjei
1st person plural	zenitünk	zenitjeink
2nd person plural	zenitetek	zenitjeitek
3rd person plural	zenitjük	zenitjeik

• zenit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

zenit (first-person possessive zenitku, second-person possessive zenitmu, third-person possessive zenitnya)

1. zenith

From Medieval Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”) which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سَمْت الرَأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”).

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛ.nit/
• Rhymes: -ɛnit
• Hyphenation: zè‧nit

zenit m

1. (astronomy) zenith

Borrowed from Old Spanish zenit, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt), from Aramaic סֵימִטָא (sēmiṭā) from Latin sēmĭta, from Proto-Italic *sēmitā, from Proto-Indo-European *swé + *mey- + *-tós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.ɲit/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɲit
• Syllabification: ze‧nit

zenit m inan

1. (astronomy) zenith (point vertically above a position or observer)

   Synonym: apogeum

   Antonym: nadir

2. (astronomy) zenith (highest point reached by a celestial body)
3. zenith (highest point or state; peak)

   Synonyms: maks, maksimum

   Antonym: minimum

• zenit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zenit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French zénith.

zenit n (uncountable)

1. zenith

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /zěniːt/
• Hyphenation: ze‧nit

zènīt m (Cyrillic spelling зѐнӣт)

1. zenith

zenit m (plural zenit)

1. Alternative spelling of cenit

• “zenit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

zenit n

1. (astronomy) zenith