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Etymology
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
Noun
septentriō m (genitive septentriōnis); third declension
- Ursa Major, Charles' Wain, the Big Dipper
- Synonym: Helicē, Arctus maior
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.
- Ursa Minor, the constellation including the most recent pole star
- Synonym: Cynosūra
- The north
- Synonym: boreās, aquilō, arctus
- the north wind, the wind god Boreas
- Synonym: Boreās, Aquilō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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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, 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)