septentrio

Latin

Alternative forms

• Septentriō
• septemtriō, Septemtriō

Etymology

From septem (“seven”) +‎ triō (“plow ox”; “Ursa Major”, “Ursa Minor”), from terere (“to rub”), the Latin name of both Ursa Major or Ursa Minor, from their appearance of milling around the current north star Polaris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sepˈten.tri.oː/, [s̠ɛpˈt̪ɛn̪t̪rioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sepˈten.tri.o/, [sepˈt̪ɛn̪t̪rio]

Noun

septentriō m (genitive septentriōnis); third declension

1. Ursa Major, Charles' Wain
2. Ursa Minor, the constellation including the most recent pole star
3. The north
4. Borealis or Boreas, the north wind

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	septentriō	septentriōnēs
Genitive	septentriōnis	septentriōnum
Dative	septentriōnī	septentriōnibus
Accusative	septentriōnem	septentriōnēs
Ablative	septentriōne	septentriōnibus
Vocative	septentriō	septentriōnēs

Synonyms

• (north wind): boreās

Antonyms

• (north wind): auster, merīdiēs

Derived terms

• septentriōnālis

Descendants

• Asturian: septentrión
• Catalan: septentrió
• English: septentrion
• French: septentrion
• Galician: setentrión

• Italian: settentrione
• Middle English: septemtrioun
• Portuguese: setentrião
• Romanian: septentrion
• Spanish: septentrión

References

• “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
    
• “septentriōnēs” on page 1917/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)