traiectoria

Latin

Alternative forms

• trājectōria

Etymology 1

From the feminine of trāicio +‎ -tōrius.

Noun

trāiectōria f (genitive trāiectōriae); first declension

1. (New Latin) trajectory
   • 1687, Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1.4, (Prop. XVIII. Prob. X.):

     Datis umbilico et axibus transversis describere Trajectorias Ellipticas et Hyperbolicas, quae transibunt per puncta data, et rectas positione datas contingent.

     • Translation by Andrew Motte

       From a focus and the principal axes given, to describe elliptic and hyperbolic trajectories, which shall pass through given points, and touch right lines given by position

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trāiectōria	trāiectōriae
genitive	trāiectōriae	trāiectōriārum
dative	trāiectōriae	trāiectōriīs
accusative	trāiectōriam	trāiectōriās
ablative	trāiectōriā	trāiectōriīs
vocative	trāiectōria	trāiectōriae

Descendants

• → English: trajectory
• → French: trajectoire
• → Portuguese: trajetória
• → Catalan: trajectòria
• → Spanish: trayectoria

Etymology 2

Noun

trāiectōria

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of trāiectōrium