occidens

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Present active participle of occidō (“I fall down; pass away”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔk.kɪ.dẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔt.t͡ʃi.dens] ==== Participle ==== occidēns (genitive occidentis); third-declension one-termination participle falling down going down, setting (of heavenly bodies) perishing, dying, passing away being lost, being undone, being ruined ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. ==== Noun ==== occidēns m (genitive occidentis); third declension sunset west Antonym: oriēns ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ==== Coordinate terms ==== compass points: [edit] ==== Derived terms ==== occidentālis ==== Descendants ==== === Etymology 2 === Present active participle of occīdō (“fell; slay”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔkˈkiː.dẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [otˈt͡ʃiː.dens] ==== Participle ==== occīdēns (genitive occīdentis); third-declension one-termination participle felling, cutting to the ground; beating, smashing, crushing killing, slaying, slaughtering (by extension) plaguing to death, torturing, tormenting, pestering ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. === References === “occidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “occidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “occidens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.