The corpus record — Latin

obmutesco

to be speechless, mute, silent

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 2 · 1.88/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-mūtesco — Lewis & Short

ob-mūtesco, tŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become dumb, to lose one's speech (syn.: taceo, sileo).

I Lit.: qui ebrius obmutuit, Cels. 2, 6: cum obmutuerint, Plin. 27, 12, 104, § 127: umbrae ejus (hyaenae) contactu canes obmutescere, lose their voice, their bark, id. 8, 30, 44, § 106; 20, 5, 20, § 40.—

B Transf., in gen., to be speechless, mute, silent: ipse obmutescam, Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 27: de me ... nulla umquam obmutescat vetustas, id. Mil. 35, 98: Aeneas aspectu obmutuit amens, Verg. A. 4, 279: dixit pressoque obmutuit ore, id. ib. 6, 155: obmutuit illa dolore, Ov. M. 13, 538.—

II Trop., to become silent, to cease: studium nostrum conticuit subito et obmutuit, Cic. Brut. 94, 324: animi dolor, id. Tusc. 2, 21, 50: Lydium sil nunc obmutuit, is no longer asked for, Plin. 33, 12, 56, § 160: dixit mari, obmutesce, Vulg. Marc. 4, 39.

In the wild

obmutuerit Celsus, De Medicina 8.4.p1
obmutescere Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.7.p1
obmutuistis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.21.25
obmutuit Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.33.2.2
obmutuisset Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 12
obmutuistis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.20.5

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