Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, So, what you're saying is that you know Latin? <g> - -frank (who surely was put in his place...) Marc James Small wrote: > <snip>"Oriens" is a present active participle derived from the third -io > declension intransitive verb, "orior", meaning, "I rise". Thus, the > participle means rising, and the reference was to the rising sun. Later, > the term came to mean "east" and "morning", as the morning sun, from Rome, > was located to the east. > > I believe that we derive "orient", as in align, and "orienteering" from the > same root, but I'm too lazy to pull my Lewis & Short or OLD at the moment. > > Vale! > > Marcus Iacobides Parvus > > msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- "Hell is others" - -Jean Paul Sartre - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html