The corpus record — Latin

obnubo

Absol., to veil the head

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Where it lives

Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

ob-nūbo — Lewis & Short

ob-nūbo, psi, ptum, 3,

I v. a., to veil, cover (very rare; syn.: velo, induo, amicio).

I Lit.: LICTOR, CONLIGA MANVS, CAPVT OBNVBITO, ARBORI INFELICI SVSPENDITO, an old formula ap. Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13: flammeo caput nubentis obvolvatur, quod antiqui obnubere vocarint ... legem jubere caput ejus obnubere qui parentem necavisset, quod est obvolvere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 170 Müll.; Liv. 1, 26; Val. Fl. 2, 254: ca put tempestate, Sil. 11, 259: comas amictu Verg. A. 11, 77.—Absol., to veil the head obnubit, caput operit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 184 Müll.—*

II Transf.: mare terras obnubit, Varr. L. L. 5, § 72 Müll.

In the wild

obnubitque Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.254
obnubito Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.26.6
obnubito Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p40
obnube Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p40
obnubitur Silius Italicus, Punica 11.257
obnubit Vergil, Aeneid 11.77

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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