also ORISONT
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from E-NED: from Old French orizonte (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), orizon (14th c.), modern French horizon (= Italian obsolete orizonte, orizzonte, Spanish, Portugese horizonte), from late L.atin horīzontem (horīzōn), from Greek ὁρίζων (sc. κύκλος) the bounding circle, horizon, pres. pple. of ὁρίζειν to bound, from ὅρος boundary, limit. In later Old French and English, conformed to the Latin nominative.; but at first stressed ˈhorĭzon (Gascoigne, Shakespeare, Sylvester); hoˈrīzon appears in Cowley, 1647 EXAMPLE From: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Compared with the Former Editions, and Many Valuable MSS Printed 1721 The Conclusions Of the Astrolabie P. 445
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