different between longitude vs zenith

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?l?n??tju?d/, /?l?n(d)??tju?d/ (More traditional) IPA^(key): /-t?u?d/ (Yod Coalescence)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?nd???tud/

Noun

longitude (countable and uncountable, plural longitudes)

1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
2. (geography, astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
3. (archaic) Length.

Synonyms

• (half of a great circle): meridian

Derived terms

• longitudinal

Translations

See also

• latitude
• equator
• prime meridian

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??.?i.tyd/

Noun

longitude f (plural longitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) longitude

Related terms

• long

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lõ.?i.?tu.ð?/
• Hyphenation: lon?gi?tu?de
• Rhymes: -ud?i

Noun

longitude f (plural longitudes)

1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian.
2. (geography, astronomy) An imaginary line perpendicular to the equator, passing through the North Pole and South Pole.

Synonyms

• meridiano

Related terms

• longo

English

Etymology

From Middle English cenyth, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic ?????? (samt, “direction, path”), from the fuller form ????? ?????????? (samt ar-ra?s, “direction of the head”). The -ni- for -m- is sometimes thought to be due to a misreading of the three strokes, which is plausible, though it could be a mere phonetic approximation.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?z?n.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?zi.n??/

Noun

zenith (plural zeniths)

1. (astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.

   Antonyms: nadir, perigee

   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

   • 1671–1693: Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook; printed in: 1895, Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham, page 44

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 180, [1]

2. (astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter II:

3. (by extension) Highest point or state; peak.

   Synonyms: acme, apogee, culmination, pinnacle

Antonyms

• antizenith

Derived terms

Related terms

• azimuth, nadir

Translations

Further reading

• zenith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Heintz, Hintze