The corpus record — Latin

ŏb-aemŭlor

to stir up, irritate, provoke

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What it meant

ŏb-aemŭlor — Lewis & Short

ŏb-aemŭlor, 1,

I v. dep. n. (lit. to excite to jealousy against, i. e.), to stir up, irritate, provoke (eccl. Lat.): illi obaemulati sunt me in non Deo, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 31 (a translation of Deut. 32, 21).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.