The corpus record — Latin

orbo

orbo · v. a

to deprive

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Where it lives

De Fato 5 · 10.09/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Hamartigenia 4 · 6.26/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 2 · 4.62/10k
De agri cultura 7 · 4.47/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k

Densest 12 of 101 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

orbo — Lewis & Short

orbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.orbus,

I to deprive or bereave of parents, children, or other dear persons; to make fatherless, motherless, childless, etc. (class.; syn.: privo, viduo).

I Lit.: filio orbatus, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 30: mater orbata filio, id. Clu. 15, 45: orbatura patres fulmina, Ov. M. 2, 391.—Of animals: catulo lactente orbata leaena, Ov. M. 13, 547.—

II Transf., in gen., to deprive, bereave, strip of any (esp. a precious) thing: pater me lumine orbavit, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 250 P. (Trag. v. 351 Vahl.): Italiam juventute, Cic. Pis. 24, 57: patria multis claris viris orbata, id. Fam. 4, 9, 3: sensibus, id. Ac. 2, 23, 74: tantā gloriā orbatus, id. Tusc. 1, 6, 12: ferum voce eruditā spoliatum atque orbatum, id. Brut. 2, 6.—Poet.: orbatae caligant vela carinae, Stat. S. 5, 3, 138.

In the wild

orbas Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.6.7
orbatae Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.21.2
orbes Celsus, De Medicina 7.31
orbemque Apuleius, Florida 22
orbes Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p20
orba Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.27

6 of 294 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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