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Latin
Etymology
Ancient Greek Ἄρκτος, ἄρκτος (Árktos, árktos)
Proper noun
Arctos f (genitive Arctī); second declension
- (in the plural) Ursa Major and Ursa Minor
- Propertius (2, 22, 25f.). In: Propertius with an English translation by H. E. Butler, 1916, page 124f.:
- Iuppiter Alcmenae geminas requieverat Arctōs,
et caelum noctu bis sine rege fuit;
- Jove for Alcmena's sake made the stars of the Bear to slumber two nights long, and heaven twice was kingless through the dark;
- (metonymically, in the plural) north
- Claudianus (De consulatu stilichonis, 1, 246ff.). In: Claudian with an English translation by Maurice Platnauer. In two volumes I, 1922, page 382f.:
- Post domitas Arctos alio prorupit ab axe
tempestas et, ne qua tuis intacta tropaeis
pars foret, Australis sonuit tuba.
- After the conquest of the north arose a fresh storm in another quarter. The trumpets of war rang out in the south that there might be no part of the world untouched by thy victories:
- (metonymically, in the singular) north
- Horatius (Carmina, 2, 15, 14ff.). In: The Odes and Epodes of Horace A metrical Translation into English with Introduction and Commentaries by Lord Lytton With Latin text. New Edition, 1872, page 178f.:
- ... nulla decempedis
Metata privatis opacam
Porticus excipiebat Arcton;2
- No one sought the cool shade of the North
Under peristyles planned out for temples;2
- 2 'Nulla Arcton.'
No private man had porticoes measured by a ten-feet rule, which appears to have been a measurement for temples and public buildings. The peristyles at Pompeii, which form an inner court to the house, give sufficient idea of these corridors, opening to the north for coolness in summer, and to the south for sunshine in winter.
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
Derived terms
Further reading
- “arctŏs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Arctos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Arctos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 156.
- “Arctos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers