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The corpus record — Latin

ob-tentĭo

ob-tentĭo · f

a covering

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What it meant

ob-tentĭo — Lewis & Short

ob-tentĭo, ōnis, f.id. II.,

I a covering, veiling; trop., obscurity, darkness (postclass.): aliquid obtentionibus allegoricis claudere, by an allegorical dress, Arn. 5, 181; 5, 182.

Where it came from

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

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