oriens

Present active participle of orior

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.ri.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ri.ens]

oriēns (genitive orientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. rising
2. appearing
3. originating

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

oriēns m (genitive orientis); third declension

1. daybreak, dawn, sunrise
2. east
   • 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.

• (antonym(s) of “east”): occidēns

compass points:  ^[edit]

• orientālis

• “oriens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oriens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oriens 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
    

• īnserō
• senior