LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

obdo

obdo

set

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Where it lives

  • Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
  • Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
  • Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
  • Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
  • Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
  • Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
  • Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
  • Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
  • Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ob-do — Lewis & Short

ob-do, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3,

I v. a., to put, place, or set one thing before another; to put against; to shut, close, fasten, etc.: obdere, opponere vel operire, Paul. ex Fest. p. 191 Müll. (not in Cic. or Cæs.): pessulum ostio obdo, slip the bolt, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 55: forem obdo, shut, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 15: obde forem, Ov. A. A. 3, 587: obditis a tergo foribus, Tac. A. 13, 5; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 37; Ov. F. 1, 28: fores obditae ferratis trabibus, Plin. 6, 11, 12, § 30: Propontidis fauces Porcius Cato sic obditis navibus quasi portam obseravit, placed opposite, Flor. 3, 6, 10: auribus ceram obdere, Sen. Ep. 31, 2: feralibus amiculis instrictus atque obditus, enveloped, wrapped in, App. M. 10, p. 244: capillos in mutuos nexus obdere, id. ib. 3, p. 137.— Poet., to expose: hic nulli malo latus obdit apertum, exposes an unguarded side to no evil-minded person, Hor. S. 1, 3, 59.

In the wild

6 of 14 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.