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orbită
orbit /orˈbi.tə/
noun#4444 most common
Also: eye socket, sphere of influence
Example sentences
Pământul are o orbită.
Earth has an orbit.
Luna se mișcă pe orbita Pământului.
The Moon moves in Earth's orbit.
Satelitul a intrat pe orbită joi.
The satellite entered orbit on Thursday.
Orbita ochiului protejează globul ocular.
The eye socket protects the eyeball.
Inginerii au calculat orbita exactă a sondei spațiale.
Engineers calculated the exact orbit of the space probe.
Instabilitatea orbitei a dus la o coliziune cu un alt satelit.
The instability of the orbit led to a collision with another satellite.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | orbită | orbite |
| Genitive | orbitei | orbitelor |
| Accusative | orbită | orbite |
| Vocative | orbită | orbite |
Word family
orbitalorbital, relating to an orbit
a orbitato orbit
orbitarethe act of orbiting
suborbitalsuborbital
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "orbită" from French "orbite" in the nineteenth century, as astronomy and anatomy became standardized fields of study. The French word itself comes from Latin "orbita", meaning a wheel track or rut, which in turn derives from "orbis", meaning circle or ring. The sense shifted from a literal groove worn by a wheel to the curved path a body traces, and later to the bony socket that holds the eye.
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