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Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of the deponent verb orior.
Pronunciation
Participle
ortus (feminine orta, neuter ortum); first/second-declension participle
- having risen
- of the sun or of the day: having risen, having dawned
- having appeared
- having originated
- (of living creatures) having come into existence, having been born
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
ortus m (genitive ortūs); fourth declension
- a birth
- a sunrise
- (by extension) east
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ortus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sunrise; sunset: ortus, occasus solis
- the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
- Cato of Utica was a direct descendant of Cato the Censor: Cato Uticensis ortus erat a Catone Censorio
- a native of England: ortus ab Anglis or oriundus ex Anglis
- the conversation began with..: sermo ortus est ab aliqua re
- a knight by birth: equestri loco natus or ortus
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