ortus

Perfect active participle of the deponent verb orior.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tus/, [ˈɔrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tus/, [ˈɔrt̪us]

ortus (feminine orta, neuter ortum); first/second-declension participle

1. having risen
   1. of the sun or of the day: having risen, having dawned
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.813:

        iamque erat orta diēs

        And now the day was dawned.

2. having appeared
3. having originated
4. (of living creatures) having come into existence, having been born
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.203:

     Iuppiter ortus erat

     Jupiter was born.

First/second-declension adjective.

ortus m (genitive ortūs); fourth declension

1. a birth
2. a sunrise
3. (by extension) east

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italian: orto
• Spanish: orto

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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
    

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