Re: quo meridies ivit?

Hi,

this must be my first message here, because I've failed on my
other attempts :) (one mail was directed to the sender, and the other on
egroups, where I found this was noot the right location on the list).

> As far as French is concerned, they're alive and well and living as
> adjectives:
> French: méridional, oriental, septentrional, occidental  (as in: vent
> septentrional -- north wind)
occidental and oriental are also names to speak of people.

> There are also the nouns, l'Orient and l'Occident. I think North and South
> get the short end of the stick; maybe they exist in some poetic contexts,
> but I've never seen them.
Septentrion is seldom used. In some old texts or poetic contexts yes.
Meridionnal as a name is used to speak of people from the south of France
and is frequently used. I can't think of it as meaning "South" speaking
of a place.

Bye

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Sylvain Glaize - mokona@puupuu.org