zenith

• n. 頂峰；頂點；最高點
• n. (Zenith)人名；(英)齊尼思
• n. 真力時（瑞士名表）

來自中世紀拉丁語senit,來自阿拉伯語samt,路，通道，詞源同azimuth,縮寫自samt ar-ras,位於頭頂的道路，ras,頭。而該詞最終又來自早期拉丁語semita,旁路，邊路，se-,分開，mita-,改變，詞源同mutual,由羅馬人占據敘利亞時傳入，後來羅馬人離開，公元7世紀左右阿拉伯人又征服了敘利亞，該詞又傳入阿拉伯，最終又在公元14世紀進入了拉丁語。

zenith

zenith: [14] Arabic samt arrās means literally ‘path over the head’. Samt ‘path, road’ made its way via Old Spanish zenit and Old French cenit into English as zenith, bringing with it the metaphorical application to the ‘point in the sky directly overhead’. The plural of samt, sumūt, is the ultimate source of English azimuth [14].
=> azimuth

zenith (n.)

"point of the heavens directly overhead at any place," late 14c., from Old French cenith (Modern French zénith), from Medieval Latin cenit, senit, bungled scribal transliterations of Arabic samt "road, path," abbreviation of samt ar-ras, literally "the way over the head." Letter -m- misread as -ni-.

The Medieval Latin word could as well be influenced by the rough agreement of the Arabic term with classical Latin semita "sidetrack, side path" (notion of "thing going off to the side"), from se- "apart" + *mi-ta-, suffixed zero-grade form of PIE root *mei- (1) "to change" (see mutable). Figurative sense of "highest point or state" is from c. 1600.

1. The zenith of Perugia'sinfluence came with the defeat of Siena in 1358.

1358年擊敗錫耶納之後佩魯賈的影響力達到了頂峰。

來自柯林斯例句

2. His career is now at its zenith.

他的事業現在處於鼎盛時期。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The sun rises, reaches its zenith and sets.

太陽升起，達到最高點，然後落下。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Opera reached its zenith at the turn of the century.

歌劇在本世紀初達到了它的頂峰.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. It felt as if we had traveled from nadir to zenith.

感覺上我們好像已從天底走到了天頂.

來自辭典例句