oriens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of orior

Participle

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

1. rising
2. appearing
3. 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

1. daybreak, dawn, sunrise
2. 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^[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