The corpus record — Latin

obaeratus

obaeratus · adj

involved in debt, in bondage on account of debt

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Where it lives

Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ŏb-aerātus — Lewis & Short

ŏb-aerātus, a, um, adj.id.,

I involved in debt, in bondage on account of debt (class.): liber, qui suas operas in servitute pro pecuniā quādam debebat, dum solveret, nexus vocatur, ut ab aere obaeratus, Varr. L. L. 7, § 105 Müll.: tenuis et obaeratus, Suet. Caes. 46.—Comp.: quanto quis obaeratior, aegrius distrahebant, the more deeply in debt, Tac. A. 6, 17.—

II Subst.: ŏbaerā-tus, i, m., a person involved in debt, a debtor: obaeratos liberare, * Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 38: Orgetorix omnes clientes obaeratosque suos eodem conduxit, Caes. B. G. 1, 4; Liv. 26, 40, 17.

In the wild

obaeratam Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.6.27.6
obaerati Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.40.17
obaerati Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.1.p1
obaerati Tacitus, Annales 3.p60
obaeratior Tacitus, Annales 6.p20
obaeratosque Cicero, De Republica 2.38

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. obaeratus (scan p. 478; entry #7725).

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