The corpus record — Latin

obnoxiosus

obnoxiosus · adj

Subject, submissive, obedient

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Where it lives

Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant

obnoxĭōsus — Lewis & Short

obnoxĭōsus, a, um, adj.obnoxius

(ante-class.).

I Subject, submissive, obedient: alicui, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 31.—*

II Hurtful, injurious, dangerous: res, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 17, 10 (Trag. v. 341 Vahl.).—Hence, adv.: obnoxĭōsē, abjectly, timidly.— Comp., obnoxiosius, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 30.

In the wild

Obnoxiose Plautus, Epidicus 5.2
obnoxiosae Plautus, Trinummus 4.3

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.