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obsero2

obsero2 · v. a

to bolt, bar, fasten

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Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Metamorphoses 10 · 1.87/10k
Eunuchus 2 · 1.84/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. obsĕro — Lewis & Short

obsĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.ob-sera,

I to bolt, bar, fasten, or shut up (not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: claudo, oppilo, obstruo).

I Lit.: ostium, Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 25: aedificia, Liv. 5, 41: fores (opp. aperire), Suet. Tit. 11: tabellam liminis, Cat. 32, 5: exitus, Col. 9, 1, 3: rogos, i. e. the dead, Prop. 4, 11, 8.—

II Transf.: aures, Hor. Epod. 17, 53: palatum (for os), i. e. to be silent, Cat. 55, 21: fores amicitiae, Amm. 27, 12.

2. ob-sĕro — Lewis & Short

ob-sĕro (ops-), sēvi, sĭtum, 3 (

I inf. perf. sync. obsesse for obsevisse, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27), v. a.

I Lit.

A To sow or plant (class.): frumentum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 129. —Comically: pugnos, to give a good drubbing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 23.—

B Transf.

1 To sow or plant with any thing: saepimentum virgultis aut spinis, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: terram frugibus. Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 63; Col. 2, 9, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 44, 2.—

2 In gen., to cover over, fill with; only in perf. pass. part., covered over, filled: omnia arbustis obsita, Lucr. 5, 1377: loca obsita virgultis, Liv. 28, 2: obsita pomis Rura, Ov. M. 13, 719: video aegrum pannis annisque obsitum, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 5: obsitus illuvie ac squalore, Tac. A. 4, 28: vestis obsita squalore, Liv. 2, 23: legati ... obsiti squalore et sordibus, id. 29, 16: variis obsita frondibus, Hor. C. 1, 18, 12: montes nivibus, Curt. 5, 6, 15: aër pallore, darkened, Luc. 5, 627; cf.: dies nube obsitus, Sen. Troad. 20: obsitus aevo, Verg. A. 8, 307: Io jam setis obsita, id. ib. 7, 790: terga (marinae beluae) obsita conchis, Ov. M. 4, 724.—

II Trop.: Tun' is es, qui in me aerumnam obsevisti, hast brought upon me, occasioned me, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 30: em istic oportet opseri mores malos, si in opserendo possint interfieri, id. Trin. 2, 4, 130.

In the wild

obsitumque Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.6.24
obseratas Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 14.82
obseratas Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.8e.2
obseratis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.14
obseratis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.18
obseratas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.9

6 of 102 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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