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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obserō (“sow thickly”).
Participle
obsitus (feminine obsita, neuter obsitum); first/second-declension participle
- sown thickly, having been sown thickly, covered with seeds, having been covered with seeds
- overgrown
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “obsitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obsitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.