The corpus record — Latin

oblīvĭum

oblīvĭum · n

forgetfulness, oblivion

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What it meant

oblīvĭum — Lewis & Short

oblīvĭum, ii, n.obliviscor,

I forgetfulness, oblivion (poet. and once in Tac. for oblivio; usually in the plur.): oblivia rerum, Lucr. 3, 828; so id. 3, 1066; 6, 1213: longa oblivia potant, Verg. A. 6, 715: ducere sollicitae jucunda oblivia vitae, Hor. S. 2, 6, 62: taedae, Sil. 2, 628: agere oblivia laudis, to forget, Ov. M. 12, 539: suci, qui patriae faciant oblivia, id. P. 4, 10, 19.— In sing.. sententiam oblivio transmittere, Tac. H. 4, 9, Ambros. Apol. Dav. 31, 16.

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.