The corpus record — Latin

obbrutesco

v. inch. n., to become brutish, stupid (ante- and post-class.): obbrutuit, obstupuit, a bruto, quod antiqui pro gravi…

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

ob-brūtesco — Lewis & Short

ob-brūtesco, tŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become brutish, stupid (ante- and post-class.): obbrutuit, obstupuit, a bruto, quod antiqui pro gravi, interdum pro stupido dixerunt. Afranius: non possum verbum facere, obbrutui, Paul. ex Fest. p. 187 Müll.: anima contracta suis e partibus obbrutescat, Lucr. 3, 545 (also ap. Non. 77, 32): claude meatus Obbrutescentis capitis, Prud. Hamart. 652.

In the wild

obbrutescat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.545

Where it came from

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