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orbĭta, ae, f. [orbis].
- I. A track or rut made in the ground by a wheel.
- A. Lit. (class.): impressa orbita, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6; Verg. G. 3, 293; Liv. 32, 17.
- B. Trop., a track, course, path (ante-class. and poet.): neque id ab orbitā matrum familias instituti, quod, etc., Varr. ap. Non. 542, 28; Plin. 8, 58, 83, § 227; a beaten path, Quint. 2, 13, 16: veteris culpae, i. e. bad example, Juv. 14, 37.
- II. An impression, mark left by a ligature: vinculi, Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 210.
- III. A circuit, orbit: orbita lunae, Auct. Aetn. 230: lunaris illa orbita, Sen. Q. N. 7, 10, 2.
Orbĭtānĭum, i, n., a city in Samnium, Liv. 24, 20.
orbĭtas, ātis, f. [orbus], bereavement of parents or children, of a husband or other dear person, childlessness, orphanage, widowhood (class.).
- I. Lit.: in orbitatem liberos producere, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 105: bonum liberi, misera orbitas, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: familiaris, Liv. 26, 41, 9: mea, quod sine liberis sum, Curt. 6, 9, 12: tutorem instituere (filiorum) orbitati, Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228: horum uxores cum viderent exsilio additam orbitatem, Just. 2, 4, 4: maximā orbitate rei publicae virorum talium, at a time when the state is greatly in want of such men, Cic. Fam. 10, 3, 3.
In plur.: orbitates liberūm, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; 5, 9, 24; 3, 24, 58; Lact. 1, 21, 11; Sol. 40, 44; Arn. 5, 188.
- II. Transf., in gen., a deprivation or loss of a thing (post-Aug.): luminis (of an eye), Plin. 7, 37, 37, § 124: tecti, id. 35, 3, 6, § 17.
Absol., blindness, App. M. 8, 12 fin.