obtĭcentĭa — Lewis & Short
obtĭcentĭa, ae, f.obticeo,
I a pause, sudden break in the midst of a discourse, as a rhet. figure: *)aposiw/phsis, quam Cicero reticentiam, Celsus obticentiam, nonnulli interruptionem appellant, Quint. 9, 2, 54.
The corpus record — Latin
obticentia
obticentia · f
a pause
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Where it lives
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- obticentiam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.54
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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