The corpus record — Latin

oblatro

to rail

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ob-lātro — Lewis & Short

ob-lātro, 1,

I v. n., to bark at; only in the trop. signif., to rail or carp at (postAug.).

(a) With dat.: alicui, Sen. Ira, 3, 43, 1: oblatrare veritati, Lact. 5, 4, 3.—

(b) With acc.: aliquem, Sil. 8, 251: nescio quid, Suet. Vesp. 13; Ambros. Spir. S. 3, 13, 92; Prud. stef. 10, 913.—

(g) Absol., Amm. 14, 9, 1; 17, 11, 4.

In the wild

oblatrans Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.19
oblatratque Silius Italicus, Punica 8.249
oblatrantem Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 13.1
oblatrantem Seneca, De Ira 3.43.1

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.