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obicio
obicio
Latin
Verb
ōbiciō (present infinitive ōbicere, perfect active ōbiēcī, supine ōbiectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I throw or put to, towards, in front of or before, present; expose.
- I hold out, offer, turn over, give over
- I cast in the way, interpose; set against, oppose.
- (figuratively) I throw out against someone, taunt, reproach or upbraid with.
- (figuratively) I bring upon, inspire, inflict, visit, produce, cause.
Usage notes
In prosody, the first syllable is scanned short in works by some later writers; thus ōbiciō can be alternatively written as obiciō.
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Descendants
- English: object
References
- obicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “obicio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to expose oneself to missiles: se obicere telis
- to expose oneself to missiles: se obicere telis