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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₃er-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɔ.ri.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɔː.ri.or]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''orior''' (present infinitive orī or orīrī, perfect active ortus sum); third (-iō variant) / fourth conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)
+ Several present forms follow the third conjugation, as ''oritur'', ''orerētur''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*or-i-|t=to rise]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₃r̥-i-|t=to rise]], from [[ine-pro|*h₃er-|t=to stir, rise]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with Umbrian [[m|xum|ortom est]], [[sa|ऋणोति|tr=ṛṇóti|t=rises, moves]] and [[grc|ὄρνυμι|tr=órnumi|t=to rouse]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Classical Latin it was first used of the sun and stars, to rise above the horizon.^(OLD 2012) It was to get up from bed, as Livy's consul rising in the night, of dust and flames to rise, and of rivers to have their source.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was to begin, to come into existence or be born, and to be descended from someone.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Its participle [[oriēns]] “rising” became the east, the Orient, and its derivative [[orīgō]] “source” gave English ''origin'' and ''original''.^(Etymonline) It survives as [[it|orire]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a consul getting up at night.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''orient'' is recorded as “the east”.^(Etymonline)
+ * c. 1400 – English ''origin'' is recorded as “ancestry”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # Of the sun and stars, to [[m|en|rise]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To get up (from bed).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # To rise (of dust, flames); of rivers, to have their source.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To begin; to come into being, be born.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To be descended (from).^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[aborior]]
+ * [[coorior]]
+ * [[exorior]]
+ * [[oborior]]
+ * [[orīgō]]
+ * [[ortīuus]]
+ * [[ortus]]
+ * [[suborior]]
+ * [[adorior]]
+ * [[oriēns]]
+ * [[oriundus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|origin]]
+ * [[en|original]]
+ * [[en|orient]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}