occidens

Latin

Etymology 1

Present active participle of occidō (“I fall down; pass away”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈok.ki.dens/, [ˈɔkːɪd̪ẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈot.t͡ʃi.dens/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃid̪ens]

Participle

occidēns (genitive occidentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. falling down
2. going down, setting (of heavenly bodies)
3. perishing, dying, passing away
4. being lost, being undone, being ruined

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	occidēns			occidentēs	occidentia
Genitive	occidentis			occidentium
Dative	occidentī			occidentibus
Accusative	occidentem	occidēns		occidentēs occidentīs	occidentia
Ablative	occidente occidentī1			occidentibus
Vocative	occidēns			occidentēs	occidentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Noun

occidēns m (genitive occidentis); third declension

1. sunset
2. west

   Antonym: oriēns

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	occidēns	occidentēs
Genitive	occidentis	occidentum
Dative	occidentī	occidentibus
Accusative	occidentem	occidentēs
Ablative	occidente	occidentibus
Vocative	occidēns	occidentēs

Derived terms

• occidentālis

Descendants

• Catalan: occident
• English: Occident
• French: occident
• Italian: occidente
• Portuguese: ocidente
• Romanian: occident
• Sicilian: accidenti
• Spanish: occidente

Etymology 2

Present active participle of occīdō (“fell; slay”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /okˈkiː.dens/, [ɔkˈkiːd̪ẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /otˈt͡ʃi.dens/, [otˈt͡ʃiːd̪ens]

Participle

occīdēns (genitive occīdentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. felling, cutting to the ground; beating, smashing, crushing
2. killing, slaying, slaughtering
3. (by extension) plaguing to death, torturing, tormenting, pestering

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	occīdēns			occīdentēs	occīdentia
Genitive	occīdentis			occīdentium
Dative	occīdentī			occīdentibus
Accusative	occīdentem	occīdēns		occīdentēs occīdentīs	occīdentia
Ablative	occīdente occīdentī1			occīdentibus
Vocative	occīdēns			occīdentēs	occīdentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “occidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occidens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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