The corpus record — Latin

obstipesco

a., to become senseless, lose feeling; to be stupefied, benumbed

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Where it lives

Aeneid 16 · 2.53/10k
Metamorphoses 13 · 1.67/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-stĭpesco — Lewis & Short

ob-stĭpesco and ob-stŭpesco, pŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. and a., to become senseless, lose feeling; to be stupefied, benumbed (syn.: obtorpesco; class.).

I Lit.: apes obstupescunt potantes, Varr. R. R. 3, 16: corpus, Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 56.—

II Trop., to be astonished, astounded, amazed, to be struck with amazement: quid hic, malum, adstans obstipuisti, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 51: ob haec beneficia, quibus illi obstupescunt, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: ejus aspectu cum obstupuisset bubulcus, id. Div. 2, 23, 50: visu Aeneas, Verg. A. 5, 90: obstupuerunt stupore magno, Vulg. Marc. 5, 42 et saep.—

(b) With acc., to wonder or be astonished at any thing (post-class.), Cassiod. Var. 2, 39.

In the wild

obstipuisse Ovid, Tristia 1.11.8
obstipuerunt Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.2.10
obstipuerunt Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.7.6
Obstipui Vergil, Aeneid 2.560
obstipuit Ovid, Fasti 2.442
obstipuisse Ovid, Amores 3.9.22

6 of 73 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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