orbis

== Latin == === Etymology === Of uncertain origin. May stem from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰis (“circle, orb”), from the root *h₃erbʰ- (“to turn”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.bɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.bis] === Noun === orbis m (genitive orbis); third declension circle, ring of things that return at a certain period of time, a rotation, round, circuit an orb (sphere) a country, territory or region a disc or disc-shaped object the Earth, the world, the globe [often written as orbis terrarum] ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī). ==== Synonyms ==== (circle): circus, circulus ==== Derived terms ==== orbita ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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. “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. Online Latin Dictionary, Olivetti