The corpus record — Latin

obesus

obesus · P. a

Part. and P. a. of obedo, q. v

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

Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏbēsus — Lewis & Short

ŏbēsus, a, um, P. a. of obedo, q. v.

Part. and

In the wild

obesaque Vergil, Georgicon 3.80
obesum Celsus, De Medicina 2.10
obesus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.26
obesum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.8.p2
obesus Suetonius, Vitellius 17.2
Obesum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.7.3.p2

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. obésus (scan p. 478; entry #7727).

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.