Orbona

Latin

Etymology

PIE word
*h₃órbʰos

From orbus (“bereft”) +‎ -ōna.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /orˈboː.na/, [ɔrˈboːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈbo.na/, [orˈbɔːnä]

Proper noun

Orbōna f sg (genitive Orbōnae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) The tutelary goddess of parents bereft of their children.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Orbōna
genitive	Orbōnae
dative	Orbōnae
accusative	Orbōnam
ablative	Orbōnā
vocative	Orbōna

References

• “Orbona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Orbona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Orbona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Orbona”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray