sphaera

• sphēra (Late Latin)

From Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspʰae̯.ra/, [ˈs̠pʰäe̯rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsfe.ra/, [ˈsfɛːrä]

sphaera f (genitive sphaerae); first declension

1. ball, globe, sphere
2. a globe of the heavens
3. a ball for playing

First-declension noun.

• (globe, sphere): globus

• sphaerālis
• sphaerula

• orbis

• “sphaera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sphaera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sphaera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sphaera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sphaera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sphaera”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 613