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orbĭtas (noun F) : orbus
* Bereavement of parents or children, of a husband or other dear person, childlessness, orphanage, widowhood (class.).
* 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.
* 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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