1. ortus — Lewis & Short
ortus, a, um, P. a., from orior, q. v.
Part. andI fin. B.
The corpus record — Latin
ortus
ortus · P. a
fin. B
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Where it lives
- Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
- Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
- Timaeus 7 · 16.58/10k
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
- Oedipus 6 · 10.11/10k
- Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
- Hercules 7 · 9.2/10k
- Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
- Ibis 3 · 7.63/10k
- Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
- Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
- Silvae 16 · 6.39/10k
Densest 12 of 136 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ortus — Lewis & Short
ortus, ūs, m.orior.
I A rising of the heavenly bodies (opp. occasus; class.): solis et lunae reliquorumque siderum ortus, obitus motusque cognoscere, Cic. Div. 1, 56, 128:
primi sub lumina solis et ortus,Verg. A. 6, 255:
(sol) ab ortu ad occasum commeans,from east to west, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: solis, sunrise, i. e. the orient, the east, id. Cat. 3, 8:
tum bis ad occasum, bis se convertit ad ortus,Ov. M. 14, 386:
nitido ab ortu,id. ib. 2, 112:
signorum,Verg. E. 9, 46:
ortus lucis,Vulg. Sap. 16, 28.—
II A rise, beginning, origin (cf. origo):
tribuniciae potestatis,Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19:
juris,id. ib. 1, 6, 20:
Favonii,Plin. 17, 9, 8, § 57:
materno ortu,Ov. M. 13, 148:
ab Elide ducimus ortum,we are sprung, derive our origin, id. ib. 5, 494:
ortus nascentium,the birth, Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91; id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:
Cato ortu Tusculanus,by birth, id. Leg. 2, 2, 5.—Of a river, the source:
donec venias ad fluminis ortus,Ov. M. 11, 139.—Of plants, the springing up, growth, Lucr. 5, 211.
In the wild
- ortus Statius, Thebais 10.382
- ortus Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.15.5
- ortus Tacitus, Annales 16.p22
- ortus Seneca, Hercules 1
- ortus Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p46
- ortus Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.41
6 of 577 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ortus (scan p. 492; entry #7984).
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