The corpus record — Latin

ob-rigesco

Absol

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ob-rĭgesco — Lewis & Short

ob-rĭgesco, găi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to stiffen, become stiff (class.).

I Lit.

a With abl.: pars obrigescit frigore, Lucil. ap. Non. 97, 12: pars (terrae regionum) obriguerit nive, pruināque, Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24; and: e quibus (cingulis) duos obriguisse pruinā vides, id. Rep. 6, 20, 21.—

b Absol.: fructus per pruinam obriguerint, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 6 Müll. (acc. to Trag. Rel. p. 64 Rib.): cum jam paene obriguisset, vix vivus aufertur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 87: obrigesceret cum gladio, become stiff with holding, Vulg. 2 Reg. 23, 10.—

II Trop., to grow hard, become hardened: viro non vel obrigescere satius est? Sen. Ep. 82, 2.

In the wild

obriguit Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.32.5
obriguisset Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.87
obriguisse Cicero, De Republica 6.21
obrigescentibus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.16
obriguit Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 4.8
obriguisse Tibullus, Elegiae 2.3.14c

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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