orbicular

WOTD – 6 September 2010

From the Late Latin orbiculāris, from Latin orbiculus, diminutive of orbis (“orb”).

orbicular (comparative more orbicular, superlative most orbicular)

Circular or spherical in shape; round.
- 1731 The Gentleman's Magazine, Weekly Essays in June 1731, Craftman, Sat. June 5, No. 257, "round+robin" p. 238:
  […] the Method used by Sailors when they mutiny, by signing their names in an orbicular manner, which they call a round Robin; […]
- 1854, Thomas De Quincey, “On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Postscript.”, in Miscellanies (De Quincey’s Works; IV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 76:
  The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink into the all-conquering hands of the mighty murderer.
(anatomy, not comparable) Of a muscle, surrounding an opening; compare orbicularis.

circular or spherical in shape

Armenian: կլորաձև (hy) (klorajew), գնդակերպ (hy) (gndakerp), կլոր (hy) (klor)
Finnish: kehämäinen
French: orbiculaire (fr), sphérique (fr)
German: orbikular, kugelförmig (de)
Italian: sferico (it)
Ottoman Turkish: یومرو (yumru), طوپاق (topak)
Russian: кру́глый (ru) (krúglyj), сферический (ru) (sferičeskij), шарообразный (ru) (šaroobraznyj), сфероидальный (ru) (sferoidalʹnyj)
Spanish: orbicular, esférico (es)

From orbicula +‎ -ar.

orbicular (not comparable)

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	orbicular	orbiculară	orbiculari	orbiculare
nominative- accusative	definite	orbicularul	orbiculara	orbicularii	orbicularele
genitive- dative	indefinite	orbicular	orbiculare	orbiculari	orbiculare
genitive- dative	definite	orbicularului	orbicularei	orbicularilor	orbicularelor

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