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Latin
Etymology
From obsideō + -iō.
Pronunciation
Noun
obsidiō f (genitive obsidiōnis); third declension
- siege, blockade
- Synonym: oppugnātiō
Camillus Rōmam ex obsidiōne Gallōrum līberāvit.- Camillus liberated Rome from the siege of the Gauls.
69 BCE,
Cicero,
De Imperio Cn. Pompei 8.20:
- ...consilio summis obsidionis periculis liberavit.
- ...with his wisdom freed it from the greatest danger of the siege.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Noun
obsidiō n
- dative/ablative singular of obsidium
References
- “obsidio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsidio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "obsidio", 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)
- obsidio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to besiege a city: oppidum obsidione claudere
- to keep a town in a state of siege: oppidum in obsidione tenere
- to raise a siege (used of the army of relief): urbis obsidionem liberare
- to raise a siege (used of the army of relief): oppidum obsidione liberare
- to hold out for four months: obsidionem quattuor menses sustinere
- to give up an assault, a siege: oppugnationem, obsidionem relinquere