The corpus record — Latin

oblatio

oblatio · f

an offering, presenting, a giving

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

Where it lives

Ad Uxorem 2 · 4.81/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 6 · 0.85/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-lātĭo — Lewis & Short

ob-lātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I an offering, presenting, a giving or bestowing gratuitously (post-class.; cf.: donum, munus, votum).

I In abstr.: honorum oblationibus, Eum. Pan. ad Const. 16: si forte oblatio ei fiat ejus, quod, etc., Dig. 5, 2, 8, § 10.—

B In partic., a bid at an auction: qui ceteros oblatione superavit, Cod. Th. 5, 13, 18.—

II In concr., a gift, present: amplissimi ordinis, Cod. Th. 6, 2, 14: si maritus ad oblationem dei uxori donavit, Dig. 24, 1, 5, § 12. —

B Esp., an offering, sacrifice, Ambros. Cain, 2, 6, 18; id. in Psa. 35, 7; Vulg. Eph. 5, 2; id. Heb. 10, 5.

In the wild

oblationes Tertullian, De Patientia 5
oblationis Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.2.p2
oblatione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.8.p2
oblationum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.18
oblationem Tertullian, Apologeticum 2.9
oblatione Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.22

6 of 31 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.