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traicere
Latin · ancient
"to throw across"
to throw across, from trans- (across) and iacere (to throw), with irregular past participle trajectus
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trajectoria
New Latin · 1600s
"the path of a moving body"
formed for the path of a body moving through space
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trajectory
English · 1690s
"the curved path an object follows through space"
settled as the English word for the curved path an object follows
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