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Where does “superhorizon” come from?

superhorizon (English) comes from English horizon, from Middle English orisonte, from Middle French horizon, from Old French orisonte, from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων, from Ancient Greek ὅρος, from Proto-Hellenic wórwos.

superhorizon (English): Larger than the cosmological horizon

Definitions

  1. Larger than the cosmological horizon

Ancestry of “superhorizon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhorizonThe visible horizontal line or point that...
2Middle Englishorisonte—
3Middle Frenchhorizon—
4Old Frenchorisonte—
5Latinhorizōn—
6Ancient Greekὁρίζωνhorizon
7Ancient Greekὅροςboundary, limit, frontier, landmark; marking...
8Proto-Hellenicwórwos—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanwerw-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European werw- →