orbus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”), from *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “orphaned”), Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha, “small”), Old Armenian որբ (orb, “orphan”). Compare Late Latin orphanus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.bus] === Adjective === orbus (feminine orba, neuter orbum); first/second-declension adjective (with genitive or ab + ablative) bereaved, bereft, deprived (of) by death orphaned, parentless; fatherless childless widowed (in general, with genitive, ablative or ab) deprived, destitute (of) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== orba orbitās orbō Orbōna ==== Related terms ==== orbātiō orbātor ==== Descendants ==== (Note: in all descendants the term acquired the meaning “blind”, from a construction such as *orbus ab oculīs (“deprived of eyes”).) === References === “orbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “orbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "orbus", 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) “orbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “orbus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin