The corpus record — Latin

obnubilo

fog; to overcloud, darken, obscure

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

ob-nūbĭlo — Lewis & Short

ob-nūbĭlo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to cover with clouds or fog; to overcloud, darken, obscure (post-class.): vultūs serenitatem, Gell. 1, 2, 5: haec omnia vitium, to obscure, Amm. 28, 4, 2: odore sulfuris obnubilatus, beclouded, stupefied, senseless, App. M. 9, p. 228, 22; so, animam, id. ib. 8, p. 204, 38.

In the wild

obnubilauit Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.13.p3
obnubilatus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.24

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.