orbita

See also: órbita, orbitá, òrbita, orbità, orbīta, orbītā, and orbită

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orbita (“a circuit, orbit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.bɪt.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.bət.ə/

Noun

orbita (plural orbitae)

1. (anatomy) Obsolete form of orbit.

Anagrams

• aborti, bioart

Catalan

Verb

orbita

1. inflection of orbitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈorbɪta]

Noun

orbita f

1. orbit (the bony cavity containing the eyeball)

   Synonyms: oční důlek, oční jamka, očnice

Declension

Declension of orbita (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	orbita	orbity
genitive	orbity	orbit
dative	orbitě	orbitám
accusative	orbitu	orbity
vocative	orbito	orbity
locative	orbitě	orbitách
instrumental	orbitou	orbitami

Further reading

• “orbita”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “orbita”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “orbita”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Esperanto

Etymology

From orbito +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /orˈbita/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: or‧bi‧ta

Adjective

orbita (accusative singular orbitan, plural orbitaj, accusative plural orbitajn)

1. orbital

French

Verb

orbita

1. third-person singular past historic of orbiter

Anagrams

• robait

Galician

Verb

orbita

1. inflection of orbitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin orbita. Doublet of orbit.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /orˈbita/ [orˈbi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: or‧bi‧ta

Noun

orbita (plural orbita-orbita)

1. orbit:
   1. (anatomy) the bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball
   2. (zoology) the area around the eye of a bird or other animal

Further reading

• “orbita” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin orbita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.bi.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrbita
• Hyphenation: òr‧bi‧ta

Noun

orbita f (plural orbite)

1. (astronomy, mathematics) orbit
2. (anatomy) eye socket, orbit

   Synonyms: cavità orbitale, cavità orbitaria

Derived terms

• orbitale
• orbitario
• orbitare

Etymology 2

Verb

orbita

1. inflection of orbitare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• orbita in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Rabito, aborti, abortì, borati, orbati, tiorba

Latin

Pronunciation

• orbita: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.bɪ.ta]
• orbita: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.bi.t̪ä]
• orbitā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.bɪ.taː]
• orbitā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.bi.t̪ä]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to turn”), cognate to Umbrian 𐌖𐌓𐌚𐌄𐌕𐌀 (urfeta).

Two derivational pathways from that root include:

• Possibly from *orbes, orbitis ("going in a circle") +‎ -a, from orbis (“circle”) +‎ -es (“going”). Confer antistita, from antistes. This would imply Proto-Italic *orβitā.
• Possibly a substantivization Proto-Italic *orβetā of a past participle *orβetos to an iterative verb *orβeō.

Noun

orbita f (genitive orbitae); first declension

1. (literally, Classical Latin) A track or rut made in the ground by a wheel.
   1. (figurative, Old Latin, poetic) A path, track, course.
2. An impression or mark left by a ligature.
3. A circuit, orbit.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	orbita	orbitae
genitive	orbitae	orbitārum
dative	orbitae	orbitīs
accusative	orbitam	orbitās
ablative	orbitā	orbitīs
vocative	orbita	orbitae

Derived terms

• exorbitō
• orbitōsus (adjective)

Descendants

Descendants

• → English: orbita, orbit
• → Franco-Provençal: orbita
• → French: orbite
• → Italian: orbita
• → Russian: орбита (orbita)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

orbitā f

1. ablative singular of orbita

Further reading

• “orbita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orbita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "orbita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• orbita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

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Uran

Neptun

kometa

pas planetoid

orbita

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin orbita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˈbi.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: or‧bi‧ta

Noun

orbita f

1. (astronomy) orbit

Declension

Declension of orbita

	singular	plural
nominative	orbita	orbity
genitive	orbity	orbit
dative	orbicie	orbitom
accusative	orbitę	orbity
instrumental	orbitą	orbitami
locative	orbicie	orbitach
vocative	orbito	orbity

Related terms

• orbitalny
• orbiter
• orbitować

Further reading

• orbita in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• orbita in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

orbita

1. inflection of orbitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

orbita

1. inflection of orbitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative