The corpus record — Latin

obaudio

obaudio · v. a

to obey

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Where it lives

De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

ŏb-audĭo — Lewis & Short

ŏb-audĭo, ii, 4, v. a., for oboedio,

I to obey (post-class.); constr. with dat. or absol.

(a) With dat.: alicui, App. M. 3, p. 136, 11.—

(b) Absol.: Adam non obaudiit, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 2.—With acc.: obaudite me, Vulg. Eccles. 39, 17.—Hence, ŏbaudĭens, entis, P. a., obedient (eccl. Lat. for oboediens).— Comp.: quid obaudientius esse potest, quam ut, etc., Ambros. Ep. 21.

In the wild

obaudire Tertullian, De Scorpiace 3
obaudire Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.20
obaudit Tertullian, De Pudicitia 13
obaudieritis Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 13
obaudiunt Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.15.p1

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.