How to Spell orbit

orbit

orbit - noun

  • The bony socket of the eye
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"The orbit encloses and protects the eye and its appendages."

Etymology

Middle English {it}orbite, orbita,{/it} borrowed from Medieval Latin {it}orbita{/it} (probably as translation of Greek {it}trochiá{/it}), going back to Latin, "track, rut, path of a heavenly body" {ma}{mat|orbit:2|}{/ma}