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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obedō (“eat away, devour”).
Pronunciation
Participle
obēsus (feminine obēsa, neuter obēsum); first/second-declension participle
- eaten away, devoured, having been eaten away
- wasted away, lean, meagre, having been wasted away
- (that is wasted away with fat) fat, stout, plump, obese
- (figuratively) gross, heavy, dull, coarse
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “obesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obesus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- obesus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.