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Latin
Etymology
From orbus (“bereft”) + -ōna.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Orbōna f sg (genitive Orbōnae); first declension
- (Roman mythology) The tutelary goddess of parents bereft of their children.
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
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