perihelion

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• Received-Pronunciation: pĕr'ĭ-hēʼlĭ-ən
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌpɛɹ.ɪˈhiː.lɪ.ən/
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• General-American: pĕr'ə-hēʼlē-ən
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• General-American: pĕr'ə-hēlʼyən
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• General-American: /ˌpɛɹ.əˈhiː.li.ən/
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• General-American: /ˌpɛɹ.əˈhil.jən/
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• rhymes with -ɪljən (GA)
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• rhymes with -iːliən
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PIE word *sóh2wl̥ From perihelium (“perihelion”) (obsolete) + -ion (suffix used for other names of apsides). Perihelium is borrowed from Late Latin perihelium, from Ancient Greek περι- (peri-, “around; surrounding”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh2wl̥ (“sun”)), which was modelled after perigeum (“point in an orbit about the Earth that is closest to the Earth, perigee”).

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: perihelio — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Bulgarian: перихелий (perihelij) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Catalan: periheli — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Chinese Mandarin: 近日點 /近日点 (jìnrìdiǎn) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Czech: perihel — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Czech: perihélium — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Czech: přísluní — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Dutch: perihelium — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Esperanto: perihelio — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Finnish: periheli — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• French: périhélie — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Galician: perihelio — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• German: Perihel — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Greek: περιήλιο (periílio) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Icelandic: sólnánd — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Italian: perielio — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Japanese: 近日点 (kinjitsuten) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Korean: 근일점 (geuniljeom) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Macedonian: пе́рихел (périhel) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Norwegian Bokmål: perihel — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Norwegian Bokmål: perihelium — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Polish: peryhelium — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Portuguese: periélio — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Russian: периге́лий (perigélij) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Serbo-Croatian: перихел — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Serbo-Croatian: perihel — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Spanish: perihelio — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Swedish: perihelium — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Tagalog: kublayo sa Adlaw — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Ukrainian: периге́лій (peryhélij) — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Vietnamese: điểm cận nhật — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun
• Welsh: perihelion — point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun