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"North" and "South" in Latin
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Carlucio
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05 December 2011 at 7:17am | IP Logged

sipes23 wrote:

Not to leave out east and west…

oriens, -entis – adj – the rising (sun), the east
occidens, -entis - adj – the setting (sun), the west

Of course there is no aurora occidentalis.

Following the logic of what iversen posted the corret would be aurora zephiralis(west), aurora euralis(East) and aurora notulis(south).
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05 December 2011 at 10:17am | IP Logged

Carlucio wrote:

septembriones and meridies are oftenly used in portuguese when we are refering to a position in a map, examples:

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Yes, but Portuguese is another _derivative_ of Latin and Greek. A language spoken by the common people developing with roots from different sources is a different case from scientific terminology purpose-chosen.
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dotancohen wrote:

Carlucio wrote:

septembriones and meridies are oftenly used in portuguese when we are refering to a position in a map, examples:

Even in romance languages those are learned latin words, borrowed directly from latin.

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