A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Orbis,-is (s.m.III), acc. sg. orbem, dat. sg. orbi, abl.sg. orbe, nom. & acc. pl. orbes, gen. pl. orbium, dat. & abl. pl. orbibus: both a plane and solid shape: anything of a circular shape, a ring, round surface, disk, hoop, orbit, orb, a circle; the world; cf. globe, sphere; utriusque orbis, of each (of two, both) worlds (i.e. the old and the new worlds); see ball;

NOTE: orbis terrarium, orbis terrae, the world; “the central land surface of the world (as conceived by the ancients surrounded by Ocean and consisting roughly of Europe, Asia, and Africa)” (Glare).

1. a circular shape, empty in the middle, such as an annulus or mouth or “a muscle encircling an orifice” (WIII);

2. a disc shape: flat and circular.

3. a three dimensional globe or sphere.

4. a world, a field of endeavor, a sphere of influence.

5. “an arrangement of objects in a circle or part of a circle, a ring” (Glare).

6. a world: a collective whole” (WIII); the old and new worlds are defined longitudinally; the north and south hemispheres latitudinally;

“any of the azure transparent spheres in old astronomy surrounding the earth one within the other and carrying the heavenly bodies in their revolutions; a globular celestial object, (as the sun or moon, a planet or star” (WIII); cf. mundus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. mundo: the universe, the world and the heavenly bodies, the heavens, the earth;

1. - nuces 5 in orbem dispositae, pedunculatae, 1-spermae (B&H), nuts 5 arranged in a circle, pedunculate, monospermous.

- corpuscula, 5, tubuliformia in orbem digesta (Necker), corpusles 5, tubuliform, arranged in a circle.

2. - corolla ampla campanulata, demum in orbem latissimum margino remote 5-dentatum expansa (B&H), the corolla big, campanulate, finally expanded into a very broad disc with the margine remotely 5-dentate.

- Flos Rosaceus ex pluribus aut paucioribus petalis quam quatuor componitur in orbem positis, quo plane modo petala florum Rosae disponuntur. Ut videre est in Ranunculo, Quinquefolio, Paeonia (Tourn.), the rosaceous flower is composed of either more or fewer petals than four, arranged in a disc [i.e. a circle], by which clear manner the petals of the flowers of Rosa are arranged. So it is seen in Ranunculus, Quinquefolius, Paeonia.

3. - SPHAEROOPHYTUM, a vocibus Sphairoomai, sum rotundus, contrahor in orbem & phyton, planta derivatur (Necker). Derived from the [Gk.] words Sphairoomai, ‘I am round’contracted into ‘orb’ and phyton, plant. That is:

- planta i. e.- fructificationem, globuliformem : aliae, sphaerulas aggregatas apicibus vel in averfâ parte frondium , gerentes (Necker), plant i.e. the fructification globule in shape, some bearing aggregated sphaerules at the apices or on the back part of the frond. DO SPHAERUL

- bacca, plurilocularis (3 4 5) orbiculata (Necker), berry with many locules (3,4,5), orbiculate [i.e. globular].

4. - in Opere splendidissimo BANKSIANO, orbi Botánico exoptatissimo (Swartz), in the most splendid Banksian work, most desired by the botanical world.

5. - orbis terrae, the circle of earth, earth, also orbis terrarum.

- orbis alter, the other world, i.e. the New World if the author was writing from the Old World;

- porro ex altero Orbe evocavi, quantum potui, Muscos ibi nascentes, & obtigere mihi plures fasciculi e Virginia & Pensylvania (Dill.), in addition [i.e. furthermore], I have elicited from the other [i.e. New-] world, as much as I could, the mosses originating there, and to have obtained for myself many fascicles [i.e. bundles] from Virginia and Pensylvania.

- regiones temperatas utriusque orbis incolunt, paucae amphigaeae, dwelling in temperate regions of both worlds (i.e. old and new), a few amphigean.

- ordo per totum fere orbem terrarum dispersus (B&H), the order dispersed throughout almost the total circle of the earth (= the whole world).

- orbis vetus, the old world, orbis antiquus, the ancient world; see world

- in orbe vetere solo vigent (B&H), it grows only in the old world.

- species 1, v. auctoribus nonnullis 3, in fontibus uliginosisque regionum frigidiorum v. temperatarum utriusque orbis crescentes (B&H), species one, or by some authors 3, in springs and swampy places of colder regions or temperate one growing in both [the Old and New Worlds].

- species ad 100, paucae per regiones calidas orbis veteris late inquilinae, species to 100, a few naturalized throughout the warm regions of the old world.

- per regiones temperatas totius orbis ubique dispersae, throughout the temperate regions of the whole world everywhere dispersed.

- species ad 12, regionum calidiorum utriusque orbis incolae, species to 12, an inhabitant of warmer regions of both sides of the globe.

- Hermaphrodites, in orbe veteri indigenae (DeCandolle), [species] hermaphrodite, native to the old world.

- genera minora et monotypica, omnia uno alterove orbi propria sunt (B&H), the smaller genera and monotypic, all are peculiar to one or the other orb [i.e. old or new world].

- orbis novus (adj.A): the New World, America. New World (adj.): neogaeus,-a,-um (adj.A), americanus,-a,-um (adj.A) (Stearn 1983);