The corpus record — Latin

obhaeresco

tempp. perf., to be stuck fast, to cleave

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Where it lives

De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

ŏb-haeresco — Lewis & Short

ŏb-haeresco, haesi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to stick fast, remain stuck; in the tempp. perf., to be stuck fast, to cleave or adhere to a thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: aurum stirpibus obhaerescit, App. M. 6, p. 178, 19: ubi in medio nobis equosacer obhaesit Flumine, * Lucr. 4, 420: consurgenti ei primum lacinia obhaesit, * Suet. Ner. 19.—

II Transf., to cleave or cling to: utrisque pecunia sua obhaesit, Sen. Tranq. 8, 2.

In the wild

obhaesit Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.8.3
obhaerescit Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.12
obhaesit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.420
obhaesit Suetonius, Nero 19.1

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.