The corpus record — Latin

oblitesco

to hide

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ob-lĭtesco — Lewis & Short

ob-lĭtesco, tŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [latesco], to hide or conceal one's self (rare but class.): a nostro aspectu oblitescant, Cic. Univ. 10, 33: ne in rimis (areae) grana oblitescant, Varr. R. R. 1, 51, 1: qui velut timidum atque iners animal metu oblituit, Sen. Ep. 55, 5; id. Q. N. 7, 29, 3.

In the wild

oblituit Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.55.5
oblitescant Cicero, Timaeus 37

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.