The corpus record — Latin

obsonium

obsonium · n

that which is eaten with bread; victuals, viands

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Where it lives

Vitellius 2 · 8.31/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Aulularia 4 · 5.79/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
Stichus 2 · 3.22/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

obsōnĭum — Lewis & Short

obsōnĭum or ops-, ii, n., = o)yw/nion,

I that which is eaten with bread; victuals, viands, esp. fish: tu facito obsonatum nobis sit opulentum obsonium, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 64: curare, id. Merc. 3, 3, 22: obsonare, id. Stich. 3, 1, 36: scindere, Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2; Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 87: coëmere, Hor. S. 1, 2, 9: opsonia rancidula, Juv. 11, 134.—Also of fruit, Plin. 15, 19, 21, § 82.

In the wild

obsonium Petronius, Satyricon 48
obsonii Suetonius, Nero 16.2.p2
opsoniis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.13.p2
opsoniis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9.78.23
opsonii Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.29.p1
obsonia Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.4.2

6 of 71 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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