orbis
Contents
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Of uncertain origin. May stem from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰis (“circle, orb”), or alternatively *h₃erǵʰi-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
orbis m (genitive orbis); third declension
- circle, ring
- a circular motion
- a rotation
- a disc or disc-shaped object
- the Earth, the world, the globe [often written as orbis terrarum]
- totus orbis terrarum
- the whole wide world
- totus orbis terrarum
InflectionEdit
Third declension, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | orbis | orbēs |
| genitive | orbis | orbium |
| dative | orbī | orbibus |
| accusative | orbem | orbēs orbīs |
| ablative | orbe orbī |
orbibus |
| vocative | orbis | orbēs |
SynonymsEdit
- (circle): circulus
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- orbis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- orbis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- orbis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- orbis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the earth; the glob: orbis terrae, terrarum
- the horizon: orbis finiens (Div. 2. 44. 92)
- the milky way: orbis lacteus
- the zodiac: orbis signifer
- a zone: orbis, pars (terrae), cingulus
- the temperate zone: orbis medius
- the empire reaches to the ends of the world: imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur
- to form a square: orbem facere (Sall. Iug. 97. 5)
- to form a square: in orbem consistere
- the earth; the glob: orbis terrae, terrarum
- orbis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.