oriens

See also: Oriens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of orior.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.ri.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ri.ens]

Participle

oriēns (genitive orientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. rising
2. appearing
3. originating

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	oriēns			orientēs	orientia
genitive	orientis			orientium
dative	orientī			orientibus
accusative	orientem	oriēns		orientēs orientīs	orientia
ablative	oriente orientī1			orientibus
vocative	oriēns			orientēs	orientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Noun

Sol oriēns.

oriēns m (genitive orientis); third declension

1. daybreak, dawn, sunrise
2. east
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.126.8:

     ā septentriōne et occidente sicciōrēs quam ā merīdiē et oriente

     from the North and West they [winds] are drier than from the South or East

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	oriēns	orientēs
genitive	orientis	orientum, orientium
dative	orientī	orientibus
accusative	orientem	orientēs
ablative	oriente	orientibus
vocative	oriēns	orientēs

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “east”): occidēns

Coordinate terms

compass points:  ^[edit]

	septentriō boreās
occidēns occāsus		oriēns eurus
	merīdiēs auster

Derived terms

• orientālis

Descendants

• Catalan: orient
• English: Orient
• French: orient
• Italian: oriente
• Portuguese: oriente
• Romanian: orient
• Russian: ориентировать (orijentirovatʹ)
• Sicilian: uriinti
• Spanish: oriente

References

• “oriens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oriens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “oriens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
    
  • eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    

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