The corpus record — Latin

ob-dulco

v. a., to sweeten, make sweet (post-class.): aliquid sale, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8, 146; 4, 1, 12: fauces, Ambros…

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What it meant

ob-dulco — Lewis & Short

ob-dulco, 1,

I v. a., to sweeten, make sweet (post-class.): aliquid sale, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8, 146; 4, 1, 12: fauces, Ambros. Hexaëm. 5, 12: obdulcatus panis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8 med.: fontes amari obdulcati, Vulg. Judith, 5, 15.

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.