orior

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *orjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (to stir, rise). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄρνῡμι (órnūmi), Sanskrit ऋणोति (ṛṇóti).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    orior (present infinitive orī or orīrī, perfect active ortus sum); third (-iō variant) / fourth conjugation, deponent

    1. to rise, get up
      Synonyms: coorior, exorior, oborior, surgō, ēmergō, assurgō
      Antonyms: cadō, concēdō, decēdō, cēdō, intereō, discēdō, excēdō, occidō, pereō
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.729–730:
        Iam tua, Lāomedōn, oritur nurus ortaque noctem pellit
        Now, Laomedon, your daughter-in-law is rising, and having risen, she dispels the night
        (That is to say, the goddess of dawn, the Greek Eos or Roman Aurora; her fabled consorts included Tithonus, son of Laomedon of Troy. See also “ortus”, the perfect active participle of the deponent verb “orior”.)
    2. to appear, arise, become visible
      Synonyms: appāreō, pāreō
    3. to be born, come to exist, originate

    Usage notes

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    Descendants

    • Italian: orire
    • Vulgar Latin: *oricāre
    • Vulgar Latin: *ortiāre

    References

    • orior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • orior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • orior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • the Rhine rises in the Alps: Rhenus oritur or profluit ex Alpibus
      • the sun rises, sets: sol oritur, occidit
      • to begin with a long syllable: oriri a longa (De Or. 1. 55. 236)
      • war breaks out: bellum oritur, exardescit
    • Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326