oriens
Oriens is a Latin term meaning the east or the eastern region. In classical and medieval Latin, oriens (capitalized as Oriens when used as a proper noun) designated the East, the direction of sunrise, or the Orient in contrast to Occidens, the West. The word derives from orior, meaning to rise, reflecting the sun rising in the east. In geographic and political contexts, Oriens was used to refer to eastern provinces of the Roman Empire and to the broader cultural sphere later known as the Orient.
In linguistic usage, oriens appears as a present participle in Latin, meaning “rising” or “eastern.” As a
In scholarly and liturgical contexts, Oriens is sometimes encountered in mottoes, Latin titles, or as a calendar