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ὁρίζοντος (horizontos)

ὁρίζοντος is an Ancient Greek form of ὁρίζω, meaning “set a boundary”. It is the present active participle genitive singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ὁρίζων, “separating circle; horizon”.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 84: … έθει. ὃ δʼ αὖ πάλιν οἱ μαθηματικοὶ ταύτην ἰώμενοι τὴν ἀτοπίαν τίθενται, τὸ τοῦ ἡλίου κέντρον, ὅταν ἅψηται τοῦ ὁρίζοντος, ἡμέρας διορισμὸν εἶναι καὶ νυκτός, ἀναίρεσίς ἐστι τῆς ἐναργείας. συμβήσεται γάρ, ἔτι πολλοῦ φωτὸς ὑπὲρ γῆν ὄ …

All forms of ὁρίζω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.