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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From the feminine of trāicio + -tōrius.
Noun
trāiectōria f (genitive trāiectōriae); first declension
- (New Latin) trajectory
1687, Isaac Newton,
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1.4, (Prop. XVIII. Prob. X.):
- Datis umbilico et axibus transversis describere Trajectorias Ellipticas et Hyperbolicas, quae transibunt per puncta data, et rectas positione datas contingent.
- Translation by Andrew Motte
- From a focus and the principal axes given, to describe elliptic and hyperbolic trajectories, which shall pass through given points, and touch right lines given by position
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
trāiectōria
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of trāiectōrium