matutine
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin, from matutinus (“pertaining to morning”), from Matuta (“Roman goddess of the morning”); related to Latin maturus (“early”) (compare mature).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
matutine (not comparable)
- Of or relating to early morning; occurring in the early morning; matutinal.
- 1833, Captain Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, from the Journal of a Tour in India, quoted in 1833, Recent Travels in Upper India, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, Volume 57, page 362,
- During a residence of nearly two years in Switzerland, the first object that my eyes opened upon every morning was the snow-clad summit of Mount Blanc; and I thought that a glorious sight. But the glaciers that now form, next to the Omnipotent Being who created them, my first objects of matutine contemplation, present a battalion of icy pinnacles, amongst which Mount Blanc, with its pitiful fifteen thousand feet, would scarcely be admitted in the rear rank!
- 1833, Captain Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, from the Journal of a Tour in India, quoted in 1833, Recent Travels in Upper India, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, Volume 57, page 362,
- (astrology) Before the sun (of the rising of a planet or star); that rises before the sun (of a planet or star).
- 1817, Ebenezer Sibly, The New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology, Volume 2, Revised Edition, 1822 printing, page 1031,
- If, at the time of the matutine ſetting of the Dolphin, there be ſhowers, there will be none at the riſing of Arcturus. […] The matutine riſing of the greater Dog begetteth heat, troubleth the ſeas, and changeth all things.
- 1975, Julius Firmicus Maternus, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Ancient Astrology Theory And Practice: Matheseos libri VIII, page 39:
- Matutine planets are those which in their rising precede the Sun. […] We must also know in what conditions the matutine star rejoices and in what the vespertine star rejoices, for they are protected in a favorable position whenever they precede the Sun.
- 1990, George Noonan, Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, page 14:
- The star indicates much trouble for the native in whose chart it is matutine rising or setting, but if the aspect is matutine culmination Arcturus brings riches and honor.
- 1817, Ebenezer Sibly, The New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology, Volume 2, Revised Edition, 1822 printing, page 1031,
Synonyms edit
- (of, relating to or occurring in early morning): matutinal
Hypernyms edit
- (of, relating to or occurring in early morning): crepuscular
Coordinate terms edit
- (of, relating to or occurring in early morning): vespertine
- (that rises before the sun): vespertine
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Adjective edit
mātūtīne
References edit
- “matutine”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- matutine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.