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ortus
ortus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect participle of orior
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈor.tus/
Participle
ortus m (feminine orta, neuter ortum); first/second declension
- risen
- appeared
- originated
- sprung
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, De origine et situ Germanorum, chapter I: Rhenus, Raeticarum Alpium inaccesso ac praecipiti vertice ortus...
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | ortus | orta | ortum | ortī | ortae | orta | |
genitive | ortī | ortae | ortī | ortōrum | ortārum | ortōrum | |
dative | ortō | ortō | ortīs | ||||
accusative | ortum | ortam | ortum | ortōs | ortās | orta | |
ablative | ortō | ortā | ortō | ortīs | |||
vocative | orte | orta | ortum | ortī | ortae | orta |
Noun
ortus m (genitive ortūs); fourth declension
- a sunrise
Inflection
Fourth declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | ortus | ortūs |
genitive | ortūs | ortuum |
dative | ortuī | ortibus |
accusative | ortum | ortūs |
ablative | ortū | ortibus |
vocative | ortus | ortūs |
Descendants
- Spanish: orto
References
- ortus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ortus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ORTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ortus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sunrise; sunset: ortus, occasus solis
- the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
- Cato of Utica was a direct descendant of Cato the Censor: Cato Uticensis ortus erat a Catone Censorio
- a native of England: ortus ab Anglis or oriundus ex Anglis
- the conversation began with..: sermo ortus est ab aliqua re
- a knight by birth: equestri loco natus or ortus
- sunrise; sunset: ortus, occasus solis