The corpus record — Latin

obambulo

obambulo · v. n

a., to walk before

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏb-ambŭlo — Lewis & Short

ŏb-ambŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

I a., to walk before or near any thing, to go past (not in Cic. or Cæs.); constr. with dat. or acc.: obambulare adversum alios ambulare, et quasi ambulanti sese opponere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 187 Müll.

(a) With dat.: obambulare muris, Liv. 36, 34, 4: gymnasio, Suet. Tib. 11: nec (lupus) gregibus nocturnus obambulat, walk or prowl about, Verg. G. 3, 538.—

(b) With acc.: urbem, Plaut. Merc. 4, 4, 20: totam fremebundus obambulat Aetnam, Ov. M. 14, 188: gymnasia, Suet. Tib. 11 (al. gymnasio).—

II Transf., in gen., to go or walk about, wander: neu noctu irem obambulatum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 34: ante vallum, Liv. 25, 39: sermone imperfecto, Quint. 11, 3, 121: in herbis, Ov. M. 2, 851: praeter os, Plaut. Poen. prol. 19.—Absol.: cum solus obambulet, Ov. Tr. 2, 459; Suet. Tib. 25.

In the wild

obambulet Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.pr.20
obambulat Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.159
obambulantes Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.39.8
obambulat Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.851
obambulant Apuleius, Florida 9.p1
obambulet Ovid, Tristia 2.1.459

6 of 17 attestations shown.

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.