septentriones

Latin

Noun

septentriōnēs m

nominative/accusative/vocative plural of septentriō
(in a transfered sense) the northern regions, the north (as a quarter of the heavens).

References

“septentriones”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
septentriones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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