septentrio
Appearance
Latin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From septem (“seven”) + triō (“plow ox”; “Ursa Major”, “Ursa Minor”), from terō (“to rub”), the Latin name of both Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, from their appearance of milling around the north celestial pole.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sepˈten.tri.oː/, [s̠ɛpˈt̪ɛn̪t̪rioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sepˈten.tri.o/, [sepˈt̪ɛn̪t̪rio]
Noun
[edit]septentriō m (genitive septentriōnis); third declension
- Ursa Major, Charles' Wain, the Big Dipper
- ca. 64 BCE – 17 CE, Hyginus mythicus, Fabulae Calisto (177):
- Hic ergo Septentrio maior ... Haec igitur ursa a Graecis Helice appellatur.
- This is then the Big Dipper... It is therefore called the Helice bear by the Greeks.
- Hic ergo Septentrio maior ... Haec igitur ursa a Graecis Helice appellatur.
- Ursa Minor, the constellation including the most recent pole star
- Synonym: Cynosūra
- The north
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.126.8:
- a septentrione et occidente sicciores quam a meridie et oriente
- from the North and West they [winds] are drier than from the South or East
- a septentrione et occidente sicciores quam a meridie et oriente
- the north wind, the wind god Boreas
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | septentriō | septentriōnēs |
genitive | septentriōnis | septentriōnum |
dative | septentriōnī | septentriōnibus |
accusative | septentriōnem | septentriōnēs |
ablative | septentriōne | septentriōnibus |
vocative | septentriō | septentriōnēs |
Synonyms
[edit]- (north wind): boreās
Antonyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Asturian: septentrión
- → Catalan: septentrió
- → Galician: setentrión
- → Italian: settentrione
- → Old French: septemtrion
- French: septentrion
- → Middle English: septemtrioun
- English: septentrion
- → Piedmontese: stentrion
- → Portuguese: setentrião
- → Romanian: septentrion
- → Spanish: septentrión
References
[edit]- “septentrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “septentrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- septentrio 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
- to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
- a hill lies to the north: est a septentrionibus collis
- to stretch northwards: porrigi ad septentriones
- to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
- “septentriōnēs” on page 1917/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)