oriens
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of orior
Participle
oriēns (genitive orientis); third-declension one-termination participle
- rising
- appearing
- originating
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | 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
oriēns m (genitive orientis); third declension
- daybreak, dawn, sunrise
- east
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | oriēns | orientēs |
Genitive | orientis | orientum |
Dative | orientī | orientibus |
Accusative | orientem | orientēs |
Ablative | oriente | orientibus |
Vocative | oriēns | orientēs |
Antonyms
- (east): occidēns
Derived terms
- orientālis
Descendants
- Catalan: orient
- English: Orient
- French: orient
- Italian: oriente
- Portuguese: oriente
- Romanian: orient
- 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, 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
- to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
Anagrams
- īnserō
- senior