septentriones

Latin

Noun

septentriōnēs m

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of septentriō
2. (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.