The corpus record — Latin

horizon

horizon · m

The horizon

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Where it lives

De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k

What it meant

hŏrīzon — Lewis & Short

hŏrīzon, ontis, m., = o(ri/zwn (sc. ku/klos or a)h/r).

I The horizon (pure Lat. finiens and finitor), Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 15 fin.; id. S. 7, 14 fin.; Hyg. Astr. 1, 4.—

II A line drawn through the centre of a sundial, Vitr. 9, 8.

In the wild

horizon Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.7.6
horizon Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.7.3

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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