The corpus record — Latin

obliquitas

obliquitas · f

a sidelong

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

oblīquĭtas — Lewis & Short

oblīquĭtas, ātis, f.obliquus,

I a sidelong or slanting direction, obliqueness, obliquity (post-Aug.), Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 40: sigui feri, id. 2, 19, 17, § 81.—

II Transf., ambiguity: oraculi, Prisc. 1137 P.

In the wild

obliquitatisque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.16.p2
obliquitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.19
obliquitatem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.8.p1
obliquitas Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.20.4
obliquitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.2.p64
obliquitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p2

6 of 7 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.