septentrional

Borrowed from Latin septentriōnālis, from septentriōnēs (“seven plow oxen”), a name for the constellations now known as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, which appear in the northern sky.

• IPA^(key): /sɛpˈtɛntɹɪənəl/

septentrional (comparative more septentrional, superlative most septentrional)

1. (rare, literary) Pertaining to the north; northern.
   • 1901, George Gissing, chapter 9, in By the Ionian Sea:

     Cow's milk could be obtained in very small quantities, but it was of evil flavour; butter, in the septentrional sense of the word, did not exist.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     Well, no, we are all septentrional here, all a bit cool. What is mother? Genova and the Alto Adige. Coolest of them all.

• boreal
• northern

• austral
• meridional

• occidental
• oriental

• prosentential

Borrowed from Latin septentriōnālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səp.tən.tɾi.uˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səp.tən.tɾi.oˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [sep.ten.tɾi.oˈnal]

• Audio (Central):

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septentrional m or f (masculine and feminine plural septentrionals)

1. northern

   Synonyms: del nord, boreal

compass points: punts cardinals:  ^[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin septentriōnālis.

• IPA^(key): /sɛp.tɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ.nal/
• Homophones: septentrionale, septentrionales

septentrional (feminine septentrionale, masculine plural septentrionaux, feminine plural septentrionales)

1. septentrional, boreal, northern (facing, situated in or related to the north)

   Synonym: boréal

   Coordinate term: méridional

   Near-synonym: nordique

• “septentrional”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French septentrional, Latin septentriōnālis.

septentrional m or n (feminine singular septentrională, masculine plural septentrionali, feminine and neuter plural septentrionale)

1. northern, septentrional

   Synonyms: nordic, boreal

   Antonyms: meridional, sudic, austral

• septentrion

Borrowed from Latin septentriōnālis.

• IPA^(key): /sebtentɾjoˈnal/ [seβ̞.t̪ẽn̪.t̪ɾjoˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: sep‧ten‧trio‧nal

septentrional m or f (masculine and feminine plural septentrionales)

1. northern

   Synonym: norteño

   Antonyms: meridional, sureño

• occidental
• oriental
• austral
• boreal
• norte

• “septentrional”, 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