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obscurus
obscurus
Latin
Adjective
obscūrus m (feminine obscūra, neuter obscūrum); first/second declension
- dark, dusky, shadowy
- indistinct, unintelligible, obscure
- intricate, involved, complicated
- unknown, unrecognized
- (of character) reserved, secret, close
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | obscūrus | obscūra | obscūrum | obscūrī | obscūrae | obscūra | |
| genitive | obscūrī | obscūrae | obscūrī | obscūrōrum | obscūrārum | obscūrōrum | |
| dative | obscūrō | obscūrō | obscūrīs | ||||
| accusative | obscūrum | obscūram | obscūrum | obscūrōs | obscūrās | obscūra | |
| ablative | obscūrō | obscūrā | obscūrō | obscūrīs | |||
| vocative | obscūre | obscūra | obscūrum | obscūrī | obscūrae | obscūra | |
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References
- obscurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obscurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “obscurus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- of humble, obscure origin: humilibus (obscuris) parentibus natus
- this passage is obscure: hic (ille) locus obscurus est
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(ambiguous) of humble, obscure origin: humili, obscuro loco natus
- of humble, obscure origin: humilibus (obscuris) parentibus natus