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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obdūcō.
Participle
obductus (feminine obducta, neuter obductum); first/second-declension participle
- led or conducted forwards
- enveloped, concealed, hidden, covered; has been enveloped, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.604–606:
- “‘Aspice! Namque omnem quae nunc obductā tuentī
mortālīs hebetat vīsus tibi et ūmida circum
cālīgat, nūbem ēripiam .’”- “‘Behold! And for everything which ’til now has concealed from sight, dulls your mortal vision, and darkens with mist all around – I shall take away the cloud.’”
(Venus allows her mortal son, Aeneas, to see the other gods who are destroying the city of Troy.)
- closed; blocked
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “obductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam