The corpus record — Latin

obduro

obduro · v. a

to harden the heart against God

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

Where it lives

Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-dūro — Lewis & Short

ob-dūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

I Act., to harden, render hard (only postclass.); in the trop. signif.: obdurare se contra manifestam veritatem, Lact. 1, 1, 23: obdurata patientia, Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 13: obdurata nequitia, Cod. Just. 10, 19, 2: obdurata verecundia, Capitol. Pert. 9.—Esp., to harden the heart against God (eccl. Lat.): obdurare corda, Vulg. Heb. 3, 8; id. Psa. 94, 8; id. Deut. 15, 7.—Pass.: ut non obduretur quis vestrum, Vulg. Heb. 3, 13.—

II Neutr., to be hard or hardened; only trop., to hold out, persist, endure: pernegabo atque obdurabo, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 56: persta, atque obdura, Hor. S. 2, 5, 39; Cat. 8, 11: perfer et obdura, Ov. Tr. 5, 11, 7.— Impers. pass.: quare obduretur hoc triduum, * Cic. Att. 12, 3.

In the wild

6 of 15 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.