The corpus record — Latin

obeso

obeso · v. a

to fatten

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ŏbēso — Lewis & Short

ŏbēso, āre, v. a.id.,

I to fatten: madefacto triticeo pane obesant avem, Col. 8, 7, 4 (al. obescant).

In the wild

obesant Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.7.4

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.