The corpus record — Latin

orbitas

orbitas · f

bereavement

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Marciam 6 · 7.12/10k
De Patientia 2 · 4.42/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

orbĭtas — Lewis & Short

orbĭtas, ātis, f.orbus,

I bereavement of parents or children, of a husband or other dear person, childlessness, orphanage, widowhood (class.).

I Lit.: in orbitatem liberos producere, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 105: bonum liberi, misera orbitas, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: familiaris, Liv. 26, 41, 9: mea, quod sine liberis sum, Curt. 6, 9, 12: tutorem instituere (filiorum) orbitati, Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228: horum uxores cum viderent exsilio additam orbitatem, Just. 2, 4, 4: maximā orbitate rei publicae virorum talium, at a time when the state is greatly in want of such men, Cic. Fam. 10, 3, 3.—In plur.: orbitates liberūm, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; 5, 9, 24; 3, 24, 58; Lact. 1, 21, 11; Sol. 40, 44; Arn. 5, 188.—

II Transf., in gen., a deprivation or loss of a thing (post-Aug.): luminis (of an eye), Plin. 7, 37, 37, § 124: tecti, id. 35, 3, 6, § 17.—Absol., blindness, App. M. 8, 12 fin.

In the wild

orbitatem Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.15
orbitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.3.p3
orbitatis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.pr.5
orbitas Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.18
orbitates Seneca, De Constantia 2.8.3
orbitas Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.1.p1

6 of 93 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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