Put it out of your mind. The term "Orient" comes from the fact that the sun rises in the East; the Latin word (oriens) literally means "rising". This is also w

Put it out of your mind. The term "Orient" comes from the fact that the sun rises in the East; the Latin word (oriens) literally means "rising". This is also why the contrasting term is "Occident" (meaning "falling"), but that word is less well known today.