The corpus record — Latin

obturbo

obturbo · v. a

to stir up

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Where it lives

Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ob-turbo — Lewis & Short

ob-turbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to stir up, make turbid.

I Lit.: obturbata proculcatione prius aqua, Plin. 8, 18, 26, § 68. —

II Trop., to throw into disorder or confusion; to disorder, confuse, trouble, disturb, distract: (eos) denso agmine obturbabat, Tac. H. 3, 25: ne obturba, ac tace, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 49: lectorem, Suet. Aug. 86; cf.: obturbatur militum vocibus, Tac. H. 3, 10: me scriptio et litterae non leniunt sed obturbant, distract, Cic. Att. 12, 16 fin.: solitudinem, to disturb, id. ib. 12, 18.— Absol.: obturbabant patres specie detestandi, to raise a disturbance or clamor, Tac. A. 6, 24 (30 Ritter).—Impers.: obturbatur, obstrepitur, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 19.

In the wild

obturbabat Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.11.7
obturbavit Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.18.1
obturbantem Seneca, De Ira 3.3.4
obturbabant Tacitus, Annales 3.p34
obturbata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.18.p2
obturbabant Tacitus, Annales 6.p28

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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