The term "Levant" appears in English in 1497, and originally meant the East or "Mediterranean lands east of Italy". It is borrowed from the French "levant" "rising", referring to the rising of the sun in the east, or the point where the sun rises. The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word "levare," meaning 'lift, raise'. Similar etymologies are found in Greek Ἀνατολή ("Anatolē", "cf." Anatolia), in Germanic "Morgenland" (literally, "morning land"), in Italian (as in "Riviera di Levante", the portion of the Liguria coast east of Genoa), in Hungarian "Kelet", in Spanish and Catalan "Levante" and "Llevant", ("the place of rising"), and in Hebrew (, "mizrah", "east"). Most notably, "Orient" and its Latin source "oriens" meaning "east", is literally "rising", deriving from Latin "orior" "rise".