noun
orsa
Meaning
- Beginnings
orsa, ōrum, n. ordior.
I. Beginnings, commencements, an undertaking, attempt: ut (di) orsis tanti operis successus prosperos darent, Liv. praef. fin.:
Orsa juvare, Val. Fl. 1, 21.—II. In partic., words, speech (poet.):
sic orsa vicissim Ore refert, Verg. A. 7, 435; 10, 632; 11, 124; Val. Fl. 5, 472: Menandri, i. e. carmina, Aus. Idyll. 4, 46.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ōrsa ōrum, n
P. plur. n. of ordior, an undertaking, attempt: tanti operis, L.—Words, speech: sic orsa vicissim Ore refert, V.