different between ephemeris vs ephemerist

English

Etymology

From New Latin eph?meris, from Ancient Greek ???????? (eph?merís, “diary, calendar”), from ???????? (eph?meros, “daily”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??f?m???s/

Noun

ephemeris (plural ephemerides or ephemerises)

1. (obsolete) A journal or diary.
2. (astronomy, nautical) A table giving the apparent position of celestial bodies throughout the year; normally given as right ascension and declination.

   Synonym: almanac
3. Software that calculates the apparent position of celestial bodies.

Related terms

• ephemerid
• ephemeride

Translations

Further reading

• ephemeris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????????? (eph?merís, “diary”, “journal”, especially “a military record”; “day-book”, “account-book”), from ???????? (eph?meros, “living but a day”, hence “short-lived”; “for the day”, “daily”), from ??(?) (ep(í), “[motive] for”) +? ????? (h?méra, “day”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?p?e?.me.ris/, [??p?e?m???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?fe.me.ris/, [??f??m??is]

Noun

eph?meris f (genitive eph?meridis); third declension

1. a day-book, diary, ephemeris
2. a journal, periodical
   • 1866 February 12th, Pope Pius IX, “Papal Brief in favour of ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’” in The Dublin Review, New Series, volume VII (July–October, 1866), ? xiii, page 230:

     Qui Religiosi Viri, Nostris desideriis omni observantia et studio quam libentissime obsecudantes, iam inde ab anno 1850 Ephemeridem, cui titulus La Civiltà Cattolica, conscribendam, typisque vulgandam susceperunt.

     Which aforesaid religious, most willingly seconding our wishes with all observance and zeal, undertook from that very time (the year 1850) the writing and publishing a journal called “La Civiltà Cattolica.” ? translation from the same source

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (journal): ?cta

Related terms

• eph?mericus
• eph?merida
• eph?meron

Descendants

• Catalan: efemèride
• English: ephemeris
• French: éphéméride
• Galician: efeméride
• Italian: effemeride
• Portuguese: efeméride
• Spanish: efeméride
• Romanian: efemeride

References

• ?ph?m?ris in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ephemeris in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ?ph?m?ris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 593/1
• ephemeris in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ephemeris in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Noun

ephemerist (plural ephemerists)

1. One who collects or studies ephemera.
   • 1988, Maurice Rickards, Collecting printed ephemera (page 30)

     The true ephemerist is as committed to the smallest neglected fragment as to the spectacular 'collector's piece'.

2. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
3. One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist.

References

ephemerist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Petersheim