septentrio

• Septentriō
• septemtriō, Septemtriō

From septem (“seven”) +‎ triō (“plow ox”; “Ursa Major”, “Ursa Minor”), from terere (“to rub”), the Latin name of both Ursa Major or Ursa Minor, from their appearance of milling around the current north star Polaris.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sepˈten.tri.oː/, [sɛpˈtɛn.tri.oː]

septentriō m (genitive septentriōnis); third declension

1. Ursa Major, Charles' Wain
2. Ursa Minor, the constellation including the most recent pole star
3. The north
4. Borealis or Boreas, the north wind

Third declension.

• (north wind): boreās

• (north wind): auster, merīdiēs

• septentriōnālis

• septentrio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• septentrio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• septentrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
    
  • to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
    
  • a hill lies to the north: est a septentrionibus collis
    
  • to stretch northwards: porrigi ad septentriones
    
• “septentriōnēs” on page 1917/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)