The corpus record — Latin

obturo

to stop up

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Where it lives

De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
De Architectura 11 · 1.91/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

obtūro — Lewis & Short

obtūro, āvi, ātum, 1 (old

I inf. pass. obturarier, Cato, R. R. 154), v. a., to stop up, to close (class.; syn.: oblino, obstruo).

I Lit.: gutturem, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 25: os, id. Stich. 1, 2, 57: foramina, Plin. 19, 10, 58, § 178: dolia operculis, Vitr. 7, 12: aures, i. e. to refuse to listen, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 105; obstructas eas partes et obturatas esse, Cic. Fat. 5, 10: oculos, Vulg. Num. 24, 3: ora leonum, id. Heb. 11, 33.—

II Trop., to assuage, allay: amorem edendi, Lucr. 4, 869.

In the wild

obturatas Cicero, De Fato 10
obturato Cato, De agri cultura 154
obturant Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.12.1
obturem Horace, Epistulae 2.2.105
obturentur Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.4
obturatum Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.12.1

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