transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈal-mə-ˌjest ]
noun
Etymology: Middle English almageste, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin, from Arabic al-majusti, the Arabic version of Ptolemy's astronomy treatise, from al the + Greek megistē ( syntaxis ), literally, greatest (composition)
Date: 14th century
: any of several early medieval treatises on a branch of knowledge