ortus

== Catalan == === Alternative forms === orto === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin ortus. === Noun === ortus m (invariable) sunrise (moment when the sun appears above the horizon) Synonym: ixent Antonym: ocàs ==== Related terms ==== orient === Further reading === “ortus” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026. == Latin == === Pronunciation === ortus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.tus] ortūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect active participle of the deponent verb orior. ==== Participle ==== ortus (feminine orta, neuter ortum); first/second-declension participle having risen of the sun or of the day: having risen, having dawned having appeared having originated (of living creatures) having come into existence, having been born ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From orior +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== ortus m (genitive ortūs); fourth declension a birth a sunrise (by extension) east ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: ortus Italian: orto Spanish: orto ==== Noun ==== ortūs genitive singular of ortus === References === “ortus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ortus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ortus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ortus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ortus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. === Anagrams === torus