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septentrional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /sɛpˈtɛntɹɪənəl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin septentriōnālis, from septentriōnēs (“seven plow oxen”), a name for the constellations now known as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, which appear in the northern sky.

Meanings

1. (literary, rare) Pertaining to the north; northern.
   • Well, no, we are all septentrional here, all a bit cool. What is mother? Genova and the Alto Adige. Coolest of them all. 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
   • Cow's milk could be obtained in very small quantities, but it was of evil flavour; butter, in the septentrional sense of the word, did not exist. 1901, George Gissing, chapter 9, in By the Ionian Sea:

Forms

Antonyms

austral · meridional

Relateds

oriental · occidental

Synonyms

northern · boreal

Translations (5)

fi pohjoinen (northern) · eo norda (northern) · ca septentrional (northern) · es septentrional (northern) · pl północny (northern)