ortus Latin · revision 30901

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *h₃er-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɔr.tʊs], [ˈɔr.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɔr.tus], [ˈɔr.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ortus''' ''m'' (genitive ortūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|orior|t=to rise]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces the verb to [[itc-pro|*or-i-|t=to rise]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃r-i-|t=to rise]], cognate with [[xum|ortom|t=arisen]] and [[hit|arai-|t=to rise, lift]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero speaks of the risings and settings of the stars, ''ortūs obitūsque''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the rising of a star, above all sunrise and daybreak, and the springing up of a wind (Pliny the Elder).^(OLD 2012) From that it is the quarter where the sun rises, the east, ''sōlis ortus'', and by metonymy the peoples of the East (Propertius).^(OLD 2012) It is also a beginning, birth or origin: Cicero calls the birth of a hermaphrodite a fateful portent, and speaks of the origin of the tyrant; of rivers it is their source.^(OLD 2012) Poets often use the plural for the singular.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “east, rising of the sun, origin, birth”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the rising of the stars, the east and birth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of the peoples of the East.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A rising (of a star); [[m|en|sunrise]], daybreak.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The [[m|en|east]]; the peoples of the East.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A beginning; [[m|en|birth]]; an [[m|en|origin]], ''(of a river)'' the source.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subortus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[orior]]

+ * [[orīgō]]

+ * [[exortus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Ortus, -a, -um'' is also the past participle of [[orior]], “risen, born, descended from”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}