different between horizontal vs arcus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French horizontal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h????z?nt?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?????z??nt?l/

Adjective

horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)

1. perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat

2. (marketing) relating to horizontal markets
3. (archaic) pertaining to the horizon
   • 1667: As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 594-5
4. (wine tasting) involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries
5. (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound successively.

   Synonyms: linear, melodic

   Antonym: vertical

Antonyms

• vertical

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

horizontal (plural horizontals)

1. a horizontal component of a structure
2. (geology) horizon
3. a Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum

Translations

Anagrams

• notorhizal

Albanian

Etymology

Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.

Adjective

horizontal m (feminine horizontale)

1. horizontal

Related terms

• horizont

Asturian

Adjective

horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Related terms

• horizonte

French

Alternative forms

• horisontal

Etymology

Derived from Latin horiz?n (“horizon”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.?i.z??.tal/
• Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales

Adjective

horizontal (feminine singular horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalement

Related terms

• horizon

Further reading

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

Galician

Adjective

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

horizontal (not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht

   Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht

Declension

Derived terms

• Horizontale

Further reading

• “horizontal” in Duden online

Portuguese

Adjective

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /o?i?on?tal/, [o.?i.?õn??t?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /o?ison?tal/, [o.?i.sõn??t?al]

Adjective

horizontal (plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

2. landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arcus. Doublet of arc and arco. Distantly related to arrow.

Noun

arcus (plural arc?s)

1. (medicine) A white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea
2. (meteorology) A low, horizontal cloud typically forming at the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow
3. (entomology) An elastic band around the base of the arolium, a pad at the end of the leg of certain insects
4. (palynology) An arc-shaped band of thickened sexine extending between two apertures on a pollen grain or spore

Related terms

• arc
• arcuate
• arcus juvenilis
• arcus senilis

Translations

Anagrams

• Curas, carus, scaur

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate to Old English earh, whence English arrow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.kus/, [?ärk?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.kus/, [??rkus]

Noun

arcus m (genitive arc?s); fourth declension

1. arc, arch
2. bow (arc-shaped weapon used for archery)
3. rainbow

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

Derived terms

Related terms

• arcu?tus

Descendants

See also

• discus
• sagitta

References

• arcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arcus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• arcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• arcus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arcus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• arcus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin