Verbum Hodiernum: ORIOR

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ORIOR Dictionary Entry

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Today's word is the fourth-conjugation deponent verb, ORIOR, with the infinitive oriri. The present participle is oriens, and the perfect participle is ortus. The verb means to "rise, come forth, be visible." Note that since this verb has the middle voice only, the present participle means "rising, coming forth" while the perfect participle means "that which has risen, that which has come forth." The word is used especially used of the sun's rising, which is how we got our English words "Orient" and "Oriental," meaning the "east," the land where the sun rises. The Latin fourth-declension noun formed from this verb, ortus (genitive ortūs) means "rising" or, more generally, "a beginning."

Here are some examples of today's word in Latin sayings and proverbs:

Aetas alia ex alia oritur.

Alia ex aliis mala oriuntur.

Ius ex iniuria non oritur.

Ex bono nomine bona oritur praesumptio.

Post hominum cineres oritur clarissima fama.

Cum sol oritur, stellae fugiunt.

Cum sol oritur, omnibus oritur.

Cum sol oritur, cunctis oritur.

Et sceleratis sol oritur.

Vix orimur et occidimus.

Superbia oriente, occidit felicitas.

Plures orientem solem adorant.

Ex oriente lux.

Ex oriente lux, ex occidente lex.

Ex natura ortum est ius.

Invidia ex opulentia orta est.

Orta omnia cadunt.

Orta omnia intereunt.

Quaelibet orta cadet , et finem coepta videbunt.

Nihil quod ortum sit , aeternum esse potest.

Omnia orta occidunt , virtus una immortalis est.

Omnia orta occidunt et aucta senescunt.

A casu describe diem , non solis ab ortu.






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