The corpus record — Latin

obtendo

obtendo · v. a

To draw

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2 · 2.41/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-tendo — Lewis & Short

ob-tendo, di, tum, 3, v. a.

I To draw, stretch, spread, or place before (cf. obtego; not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

A Lit.

1 Proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanes, Verg. A. 10, 82: sudarium ante faciem, Suet. Ner. 48.—Poet.: obtentā nocte, i. e. in dark night, Verg. G. 1, 248.—

2 Pass., with mid. force: oculis membrana obtenditur, spreads over, Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 153: Britannia Germaniae obtenditur, lies over against Germany, Tac. Agr. 10.—

B Trop., to pretend, allege, plead as an excuse: matris preces obtendens, Tac. A. 3, 17: ad ea Drusus cum arbitrium senatūs obtenderet, id. ib. 1, 26: valetudinem corporis, aetatem liberūm, nubilem filiam, id. ib. 3, 35: suae imbecillitati sanitatis appellationem obtendunt, Quint. 12, 10, 15: rationem turpitudini, Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 15: qui delictis suis excusationem carnis obtendet, Lact. 4, 24, 10: quid poterimus obtendere, plead what excuse, Vulg. Gen. 44, 16.—

II Transf., to cover, hide, conceal.

A Lit.: obtendunt limina silvis, Stat. Th. 2, 248: lucem pulvere, Sil. 10, 228: diem nube atrā, Tac. H. 3, 56.—

B Trop., to hide, conceal, envelop: quasi velis quibusdam obtenditur uniuscujusque natura, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15.—

2 To spread over, make a cover for: Vitellius curis luxum obtendebat, i. e. sought a refuge from, Tac. H. 3, 36 init.

In the wild

obtenta Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 273
obtentu Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 4
obtentum Cicero, Philippicae 2.109
obtentu Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.26
obtendebant Tacitus, Annales 12.p46
obtenditur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.20.p1

6 of 76 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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