different between horizon vs archaic

English

Etymology

From Old French orizon, via Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h???a?z?n/

Noun

horizon (plural horizons)

1. The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.

   Synonyms: skysill, skyline

2. (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
   • 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:

     The Indians of the Americas totaled no less than 70 million when the foreign conquerors appeared on the horizon; a century and a half later they had been reduced to 3.5 million.

3. The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
4. (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
5. (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6. Any level line or surface.
7. (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

Derived terms

• archaeological horizon
• artificial horizon
• event horizon
• radar horizon

Related terms

• horizontal
• aorist

Translations

See also

• vertical

Further reading

• horizon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?.ri.z?n/

Noun

horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)

1. horizon

   Synonyms: kim, einder

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: horizon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.?i.z??/
• Homophone: horizons
• Hyphenation: ho?ri?zon

Noun

horizon m (plural horizons)

1. horizon

Derived terms

• bleu horizon
• horizon des événements
• horizon rationnel
• horizon sensible
• horizonner
• horizontal
• ligne d'horizon
• tour d'horizon

Further reading

• “horizon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch horizon, from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ho?riz?n]
• Hyphenation: ho?ri?zon

Noun

horizon (first-person possessive horizonku, second-person possessive horizonmu, third-person possessive horizonnya)

1. horizon:
   1. the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.

      Synonym: cakrawala

   2. (geoglogy) a specific layer of soil or strata.
2. (in extension) sky, atmosphere, space

   Synonyms: ambara, angkasa, awang-awang, bumantara, cakrawala, dirgantara, langit, udara

Compounds

Further reading

• “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ho?riz.zo?n/, [h????z?d??z?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o?rid.d?zon/, [???id???z??n]

Noun

horiz?n m (genitive horizontis); third declension

1. horizon

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?n).

Descendants

References

• horizon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• archæic (old-fashioned)
• archaeic (rare or old-fashioned)
• archaïc
• archaick (obsolete)

Etymology

From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ??????? (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”), from ???? (árkh?, “I am first”), from ???? (árkh?, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin, rule, command”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??.?ke?.?k/

Noun

archaic (plural archaics)

1. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
   • 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:

     [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.

2. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
   • 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:

     [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.

Adjective

archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)

1. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
2. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
3. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period

Synonyms

• (old-fashioned): dated, obsolete, old fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Derived terms

• archaically, archaism, archaicy

Related terms

Translations

References

• archaic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “archaic”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
• The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998

Anagrams

• arachic