Meaning of orbis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. circle, ring
   declension-3, masculine
2. of things that return at a certain period of time, a rotation, round, circuit
   declension-3, masculine
3. an orb (sphere)
   declension-3, masculine
4. a country, territory or region
   declension-3, masculine
5. a disc or disc-shaped object
   declension-3, masculine
6. the Earth, the world, the globe
   declension-3, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“totus orbis terrarum”

the whole wide world

“Hīc, hīc sunt in nostrō numerō, Patrēs Cōnscrīptī — in hōc orbis terrae sānctissimō gravissimōque cōnsiliō — quī dē nostrō omnium interitū, quī dē huius urbis atque adeō dē orbis terrārum exitiō cōgitent!”

Here, here they are among our assembly, Conscript Fathers — in this, the most sacred and most solemn council of every land — those who plan the death of us all, who plot the destruction of this city, and even the ruin of the whole world! (Literally, “of the sphere of land(s).”)

“cuius consensui ne orbis quidem terrarum possit obsistere”

the union of which not even the whole world could withstand

“Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum ūnus erat tōtō nātūrae vultus in orbe, quem dīxēre chaos: […]”

Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things, there was one face of nature in the whole world, which they called chaos: […]

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