oriente

oriento +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /oriˈente/

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: o‧ri‧en‧te

oriente

1. easterly

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oriente

1. inflection of orienter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• E
• L

From Old Galician-Portuguese ouriente, borrowed from Latin oriēns, oriēntem (“the east”).

oriente m (uncountable)

1. east (cardinal direction)

   Synonyms: leste, levante, nacente

   Antonyms: occidente, oeste, poñente

2. the eastern portion of a territory or region

   Synonym: leste

• leste
• norte
• occidente
• sur

• oriental
• Oriente

• “oriente”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Latin orientem (possibly a borrowing), accusative form of oriēns, present participle of orior (“to rise, get up”), in reference to the rising of the Sun. Early Christian maps were "oriented" with the direction to Jerusalem always at the top.

• IPA^(key): /oˈrjɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: o‧rièn‧te

oriente m (plural orienti)

1. (geography) east, orient

   Synonyms: est, levante

   Antonym: occidente

2. orient (of a pearl)
3. (Freemasonry) lodge

compass points (Latin-origin): punti cardinali:  ^[edit]

• orientare

• orientale

• oriente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Eritone, neoteri, noterei, noterie, tonerei

oriente

1. ablative singular of oriēns

• Rhymes: -ẽti

• Hyphenation: o‧ri‧en‧te

From Old Galician-Portuguese ouriente, borrowed from Latin orientem, present participle of orior (“to rise”).

oriente m (plural orientes)

1. east

   Synonyms: leste, nascente

   Antonyms: ocidente, poente, oeste

compass points: pontos cardeais:  ^[edit]

• oriental
• orientar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

oriente

1. inflection of orientar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “oriente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾjente/ [oˈɾjẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: o‧rien‧te

Borrowed from Latin orientem.^[1]

oriente m (plural orientes)

1. east

   Synonym: este

   Antonyms: occidente, oeste

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

oriente

1. inflection of orientar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “oriente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024