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orbis

Nomen masculinum CEFR B1
[ˈɔr.bɪs]

Definitiones

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

Aequivalentia

EnglishcircleearthOrbring
Españolorbe
FrançaisœilOrborbesphère
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Българскикълбо́
Češtinakouleoko
Danskkugle
Ελληνικάσφαίρα
Esperantosfero
עבריתגלהכדור
Italianogloboocchioorbesfera
日本語球体
Қазақ тілішар
한국어천체
Македонскикуглаокосфератопка
Nederlandsboloogappel
Portuguêsorbe
РусскийсфераШар
Svenskaklot

Exempla

“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: […]

Gradus CEFR

B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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