The corpus record — Latin

obsuo

obsuo · v. a

To sew on

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Where it lives

Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

ob-sŭo — Lewis & Short

ob-sŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.

I To sew on (very rare): obsutum caput, Ov. F. 2, 578. —

II To sew up, sew together; to stop or close up (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): nares, et spiritus oris obsuitur, Verg. G. 4, 301: sporta auri obsuta, Suet. Rhet. 1 fin.: obsuta lectica, the curtains of which are sewed together all around, id. Tib. 64.

In the wild

obsutum Ovid, Fasti 2.578
obsutum Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.30.12.37
obsutaque Suetonius, Tiberius 64.1

Where it came from

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

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