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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obruō.
Participle
obrutus (feminine obruta, neuter obrutum); first/second-declension participle
- overwhelmed, overthrown
- buried, concealed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “obrutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obrutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obrutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse
- to be virtuous: virtute praeditum, ornatum esse (opp. vitiis obrutum esse)
- to be vicious, criminal: vitiis, sceleribus inquinatum, contaminatum, obrutum esse
- to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse