The corpus record — Latin

obstaculum

obstaculum · n

a hinderance, obstacle

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ob-stācŭlum — Lewis & Short

ob-stācŭlum, i, n.obsto,

I a hinderance, obstacle (post-class.; cf. impedimentum): teneris et rarioribus parcit (fulmen), quia transitu patente minus obstaculum invenit, Sen. Q. N. 2, 52, 1: rumpere obstacula, Prud. Ham. 601; App. Flor. p. 361, 11; Arn. 2, 62; Amm. 17, 3.—In plur., of mountains, Amm. 21, 10.

In the wild

obstacula Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.599
obstacula Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.117
obstacula Prudentius, Cathemerina 9.65
obstacula Apuleius, Florida 18.p3
obstacula Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.4.13.p2

Where it came from

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