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Latin
Etymology
Formed from oblīvium (“forgetfulness, oblivion”) + -ōsus (“full of, overly, prone to”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
oblīviōsus (feminine oblīviōsa, neuter oblīviōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- forgetful, oblivious
- wreaking forgetfulness, furthering the loss of conscience
23 BCE – 13 BCE,
Horace,
Odes II.7.21–23:
- Oblivioso levia Massico
ciboria exple, funde capacibus
unguenta de conchis!- Fill the light goblets with wine from the Massicus that wreaks forgetfulness, slop salves from big shells!
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “obliviosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obliviosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obliviosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a good memory: memorem esse (opp. obliviosum esse)