oriens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of orior

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ri.ens/, [ˈɔriẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ri.ens/, [ˈɔːriens]

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 oriens.

oriēns m (genitive orientis); third declension

1. daybreak, dawn, sunrise
2. east

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “east”): occidēns

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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• īnserō
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