orba

orba is a Latin form of orbo, meaning “bereave, deprive (of children or parents); (orbus) bereft, orphaned, childless”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

It can also be a form of orbus, “bereft, deprived (of +abl.); childless, orphaned”.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 54: … ncipes neque in illa contione adfuerunt neque istius decreti ac testimoni auctores esse voluerunt. Vsque adeo orba fuit ab optimatibus illa contio ut princeps principum esset Maeandrius; cuius lingua quasi flabello seditioni …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.44: … rit enim auxilium: Quíd petam praésidi aut éxequar quóve nunc Aúxilio éxili aút fugae fréta sim? Árce et urbe órba sum. quo áccidam? quo ápplicem? Cuí nec arae pátriae domi stant, fráctae et disiectaé iacent, Fána flamma déf …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.301: Dumque rogat, pro qua rogat, occidit. Orba resedit

All forms of orbo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.