orb

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English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French orbe, from Latin orbis (“circle, orb”). Compare orbit.

Noun[edit]

orb (plural orbs)

  1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
  2. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
  3. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
    • 1612, Francis Bacon, Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, "Of Superstition"
      The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
    • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
      You seem to me as Dian in her orb.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
      In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb.
  4. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
    • 1667, Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Book V:
      Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.
  5. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical
  6. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel
  7. (rare) A sphere of action.
    • 1815, William Wordsworth, "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface"
      By what fatality the orb of my genius […] acts upon these men like the moon upon a certain description of patients, it would be irksome to inquire
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre Act 1 Scene 2
      But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.
  8. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
  9. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
  10. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
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Translations[edit]
spherical body
circle — see circle
orbit — see orbit
period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body — see year
monarch's ceremonial sphere — see globus cruciger

same as mound, a ball or globe
See mound, ball, globe

Verb[edit]

orb (third-person singular simple present orbs, present participle orbing, simple past and past participle orbed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lowell to this entry?)
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  2. (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
  3. (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
    • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
      The wheels were orbed with gold.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old French orb (“blind”), from Latin orbus (“destitute”).

Noun[edit]

orb (plural orbs)

  1. (architecture) A blank window or panel.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Oxf. Gloss to this entry?)

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan òrb), from Latin orbus (ab oculīs) (literally “deprived of eyes”) (compare Italian orbo, Romanian orb, French aveugle from the other half of the idiom), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”).

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orb (feminine orba, masculine plural orbs, feminine plural orbes)

  1. blind

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Noun[edit]

orb m (uncountable)

  1. a fungal disease of wheat and other cereals

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Finnish orpo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *orpa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *arbha-s. Cognate with Hungarian árva.

Noun[edit]

orb (genitive orvu, partitive orbu)

  1. orphan

Declension[edit]

Declension of orb (type riik)
singular plural
nominative orb orvud
genitive orvu orbude
partitive orbu orbe / orbusid
illative orbu / orvusse orbudesse
inessive orvus orbudes
elative orvust orbudest
allative orvule orbudele
adessive orvul orbudel
ablative orvult orbudelt
translative orvuks orbudeks
terminative orvuni orbudeni
essive orvuna orbudena
abessive orvuta orbudeta
comitative orvuga orbudega

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin orbus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Compare Italian orbo.

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Adjective[edit]

orb m or n (feminine singular oarbă, masculine plural orbi, feminine and neuter plural oarbe)

  1. blind

Declension[edit]

Declension of orb
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite orb oarbă orbi oarbe
definite orbul oarba orbii oarbele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite orb oarbe orbi oarbe
definite orbului oarbei orbilor oarbelor

Noun[edit]

orb m (plural orbi, feminine equivalent oarbă)

  1. blind man

Declension[edit]

Declension of orb
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) orb orbul (niște) orbi orbii
genitive/dative (unui) orb orbului (unor) orbi orbilor
vocative orbule orbilor

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