Noun: orbis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | orbis |
| Plural | orbēs |
Genitive
| Singular | orbis |
| Plural | orbium |
Dative
| Singular | orbī |
| Plural | orbibus |
Accusative
| Singular | orbem |
| Plural | orbēs; orbīs |
Ablative
| Singular | orbe; orbī |
| Plural | orbibus |
Vocative
| Singular | orbis |
| Plural | orbēs |
Sample Sentences
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totus orbis terrarum (the whole wide world)
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Hīc, hīc sunt in nostrō numerō, Patrēs Cōnscrīptī — in hōc orbis terrae sānctissimō gravissimōque cōnsiliō — quī dē nostrō omnium interitū, quī dē huius urbis atque adeō dē orbis terrārum exitiō cōgitent! (Here, here they are among our assembly, Conscript Fathers — in this, the most sacred and most solemn council of every land — those who plan the death of us all, who plot the destruction of this city, and even the ruin of the whole world!
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(Literally, “of the sphere of land(s).”)) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.9]
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cuius consensui ne orbis quidem terrarum possit obsistere (the union of which not even the whole world could withstand) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.29]
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Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum
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ūnus erat tōtō nātūrae vultus in orbe,
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quem dīxēre chaos: […] (Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things,
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there was one face of nature in the whole world,
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which they called chaos: […]) [8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.5–7]
Nouns inflected like orbis
subclassis,
birēmis,
novālis,
superclassis,
quadrirēmis,
quīnquerēmis,
classis,
vōcālis,
amnis,
auris,
fīnis,
orbis,
cīvis,
rudis,
nātālis,
sēmivōcālis,
trirēmis,
maiālis,
majālis,
mataris, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. May stem from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰis (“circle, orb”), from the root *h₃erbʰ- (“to turn”).
Verbs referencing "orbis"
English Nouns
orb, English Nouns
orbuculum.
Translations