The corpus record — Latin

orbita

track made by a wheel; path of a heavenly body

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. orbita — de Vaan

orbita 'track made by a wheel; path of a heavenly body' (Var.-l-), orbitus 'circular5 (Varro); orbile 'rim' (Varro). ordior Pit *orfi- 'wheel', *orfi/eta- 'wheel-like, disc'. It. cognates: U. urfeta [accsg.] '?' (an object which the priest holds in his hands). PIE *h3orbh-i- 'turning thing'. IE cognates: Hit. harp-HQ(ri) / harp-21 'to change allegiance, join' < *hserbh-to, {G{S)harpa/i- [a] 'pile, heap'; Gr. … — [de Vaan, s.v. orbita, p. 446]

2. orbĭta — Lewis & Short

orbĭta, ae, f.orbis.

I A track or rut made in the ground by a wheel.

A Lit. (class.): impressa orbita, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6; Verg. G. 3, 293; Liv. 32, 17.—

B Trop., a track, course, path (ante-class. and poet.): neque id ab orbitā matrum familias instituti, quod, etc., Varr. ap. Non. 542, 28; Plin. 8, 58, 83, § 227; a beaten path, Quint. 2, 13, 16: veteris culpae, i. e. bad example, Juv. 14, 37.—

II An impression, mark left by a ligature: vinculi, Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 210.—

III A circuit, orbit: orbita lunae, Auct. Aetn. 230: lunaris illa orbita, Sen. Q. N. 7, 10, 2.

In the wild

orbitam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.58
orbita Vergil, Georgicon 3.293
orbita Lucan, Pharsalia 9.691
orbita Silius Italicus, Punica 10.539
orbita Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.442
orbita Statius, Silvae 4.2.35

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. orbita (scan pp. 446-447; entry #1216). Root candidates: *orfi-, *hjorbh-, *h3erbh-.

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