occidens

Present active participle of occidō (“I fall down; pass away”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.kɪ.dẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔt.t͡ʃi.d̪ens]

occidēns (genitive occidentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. falling down
2. going down, setting (of heavenly bodies)
3. perishing, dying, passing away
4. being lost, being undone, being ruined

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

occidēns m (genitive occidentis); third declension

1. sunset
2. west

   Antonym: oriēns

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.126.8:

     ā septentriōne et occidente sicciōrēs quam ā merīdiē et oriente

     from the North and West they [winds] are drier than from the South or East

Third-declension noun.

compass points:  ^[edit]

• occidentālis

Present active participle of occīdō (“fell; slay”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔkˈkiː.dẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [otˈt͡ʃiː.d̪ens]

occīdēns (genitive occīdentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. felling, cutting to the ground; beating, smashing, crushing
2. killing, slaying, slaughtering
3. (by extension) plaguing to death, torturing, tormenting, pestering

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “occidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occidens 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
    
  • eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    
  • the evening of life: vita occidens