The corpus record — Latin

obesitas

obesitas · f

fatness, stoutness, corpulence, obesity

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

Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ŏbēsĭtas — Lewis & Short

ŏbēsĭtas, ātis, f.obesus,

I fatness, stoutness, corpulence, obesity (post-Aug.): et obesitas ventris, Suet. Dom. 18; id. Claud. 41; Col. 6, 24.—Of trees: (arbores) laborant obesitate, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 219.

In the wild

obesitate Suetonius, Divus Claudius 41.1
obesitas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.24.3
obesitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p3
obesitate Suetonius, Domitianus 18.1
obesitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.32

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.