orbis

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Of uncertain origin. May stem from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰis (“circle, orb”), or alternatively *h₃erǵʰi-.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.bis/, [ˈɔr.bɪs]

NounEdit

orbis m (genitive orbis); third declension

1. circle, ring
2. a circular motion
3. a rotation
4. a disc or disc-shaped object
5. the Earth, the world, the globe [often written as orbis terrarum]

   totus orbis terrarum

   the whole wide world

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

Derived termsEdit

• orbita

SynonymsEdit

• (circle): circulus

DescendantsEdit

• English: orb
• French: orbe
• Italian: orbe
• Portuguese: orbe
• Spanish: orbe
• Romanian: orbita

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “orbis”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “orbis” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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
    
• 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.