“world” in Latin

The universe, mundus: universum: universitas: rerum universitas: natura rerum: res creatae: before the foundation of the world, ante mundum conditum, creatum: ante res creatas: ante initia rerum: from the beginning of the world, inde a primis rerum initiis: inde a mundo condito.

The globe and its contents, orbis terrae, or orbis only (the globe): orbis terrarum (the world, so far as it was known to the Romans): terrae (countries). To sail round the world, orbem terrae circumvehi (☞ not circumnavigare): the old world, *orbis antiquus: the new world, *orbis norus; *orbis recens cognitus; *partes orbis terrarum recentiore aetate inventae: the rulers of the world, terrarum principes (Liv.): a citizen of the world, totius mundi incola et civis (Cic., Tusc., 5, 37, 108, where κόσμιος is translated mundanus, and explained by qui totius mundi se incolam et civem arbitratur); incola mundi.

Men of the same age or generation, homines qui nunc vivunt, qui nunc sunt, reperiuntur in orbe terrarum: homines, genus hominum: the ancient world, antiquitas; antlqua tempora.

Things as they are, res quae nunc sunt: ordo rerum, qualis hodie, qualis nunc, est: quite a new world, alia aetas; novus rerum ordo (Bauer): another world (in the Roman sense), inferi: locus inferorum: orcus; (in the Christian sense), *altera vita: *mortui, mortuorum vita.

Men in general, especially men and things with which we are conversant, homines: vulgus (the greater number): such is the world, sic vivitur (Cic., Fam., 2, 15, 2); sic vita hominum est (Cic., Rosc. Am., 30, 84); sic vita fert (Cic., Att., 12, 22, 4); sic sunt homines, sic vulgus est (Ter.): the way of the world, hominum mores; saeculum: the great world, celebritas hominum; celebrior vita; sol; lux: to publish to all the world, in publico proponere aliquid: a man of the world, homo politus et urbanus: homo lautus (Cic.): morum peritus: omni vita et victu excultus atque expolitus (polished, refined): hominum tractandorum peritus (practised, not inexperienced): knowledge of the world, notitia hominum, rerum, temporum (Tac., Dial., 29): to know the world, nosse, cognitos habere homines: multum versatum esse cum hominibus: to be ignorant of the world, non nosse homines, or hominum mores: imperitum esse hominum or rerum: all the world knows it, omnes homines hoc sciunt: neminem fugit: nemo ignorat: the bravest man the world ever saw, unus post homines natos fortissimus vir (Cic.):

Men of a certain class; e.g., the litterary world, homines docti, litterati, eruditi (Cic.); better than civitas litteraria (Wolf); civitas litterata, erudita: respublica litteraria. (☞ Avoid orbis terrarum eruditus (Wyttenback). [Vid: “REPUBLIC of Letters. “] The fashionable world, homines cultiores, elegantiores.

Things temporal (opposed to things eternal), res humanae: res vanae, fluxae, caducae: (with reference to earthly pleasures) voluptates: illecebrae voluptatum (Cic.): love of the world, rerum humanarum, etc., amor, studium, admiratio: contempt of the world, despicientia rerum: to live to the world, to love the world, deditum esse, servire voluptatibus: captum esse rebus vanis, studiis pravis: the wicked world, homines impii, mali, perditi.

Great number, vis: vis magna.

In the world (as an expletive), tandem (e.g., how in the world? quonam tandem modo? or by circumlocution; e.g., I am the most unhappy man in the world, prorsus nihil abest, quin sim miserrimus, Cic., Att., 11, 15, 3).