Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a zenith.
1 more example
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 25, […] since he had last shared in the Vicarage life it had grown even more distinctly foreign to his own than usual. Its transcendental aspirations—still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell—were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet.
- not comparablecartographyAzimuthal.
Origin
- Medieval Latincenit
- Middle Englishcenyth
- Englishzenith
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishzenithal
Translations
French zénithal
- zénithalof or pertaining to a zenith
Italian zenitale
- zenitaleof or pertaining to a zenith
Russian зени́тный
- зени́тный (zenítnyj)of or pertaining to a zenith
Spanish cenital
- cenitalof or pertaining to a zenith
Cite this entry
zenithal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zenithal
“zenithal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zenithal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “zenithal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zenithal.
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