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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from ob- plus the root of lēvis (“smooth”) with -ēscor (passive inchoative suffix, from -ēscō), with oblīvīscor having an earlier meaning of "start to erase".
Pronunciation
Verb
oblīvīscor (present infinitive oblīvīscī, perfect active oblītus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to lose remembrance of, forget (+ genitive of person or genitive/accusative of person or thing)
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.31.7:
- bibant ut oblīvīscantur egestātis suae et dolōris nōn recordentur amplius
- Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow no more. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- to forget
- Antonyms: memorō, admoneō, referō, retineō, moneō, meminī, redūcō
- to disregard, omit, neglect (+genitive of person or genitive/accusative of person or thing)
- Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, reddō, remittō, dēstituō, dēficiō, cēdō, dissimulō, trādō, addīcō, praetereō, neglegō, pōnō, reddō, remittō, permittō, tribuō
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Descendants
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *oblītāre (see there for further descendants)
References
- “obliviscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obliviscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obliviscor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “oblīvīscor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 422