The corpus record — Latin

obreptīvus

obreptīvus · adj

secret, clandestine

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What it meant

obreptīvus — Lewis & Short

obreptīvus, a, um, adj.obrepo,

I secret, clandestine (post-class.): supplicatio, Symm. Ep. 5, 64; Cod. Th. 16, 10, 8.—Hence, adv.: obreptīvē, surreptitiously, clandestinely (post-class.): aut clanculo supplicare, Cod. Th. 16, 1, 4 fin.

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.