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 orīrī, perfect active ortus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, deponent

  1. to rise, get up
    Synonyms: coorior, exorior, oborior, surgō, ēmergō, assurgō
    Antonyms: concēdō, decēdō, cēdō, intereō, discēdō, excēdō, pereō
    • 43 BCEc. 17 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

  • Part of a small group of verbs, all with a short-vowel root, displaying both 3rd and 4th conjugation forms.
  • Present active infinitive only orīrī, other 4th conjugation forms occur, particularly in manuscripts.
  • Past participle exclusively ortus, future participle exclusively oritūrus, gerund almost exclusively oriundus.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Romanian: urca

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, 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
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