oriente

/oˈɾjente/ · B2 · noun · m

east

🌅 Same root as English orient: Latin oriens, the rising sun

Latin oriens means rising, as in the sun rising in the east. English has orient and orientation from the same root: to orient a map once meant turning it to face east. El oriente is the east; its opposite is el occidente, the west.

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