orbate

English

Etymology

From Latin orbatus, past participle of orbare (“to bereave”), from orbus (“bereaved of parents or children”). See orphan.

Adjective

orbate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) bereaved; fatherless or childless

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for orbate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

orbāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of orbō
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