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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obtundō.
Pronunciation
Participle
obtūsus (feminine obtūsa, neuter obtūsum, comparative obtūsior); first/second-declension participle
- struck, beaten, buffeted
- blunt, blunted, dull, dulled, dim, dimmed, obtuse, unfeeling
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.567–568:
- “Nōn obtūsa adeō gestāmus pectora Poenī,
nec tam āversus equōs Tyriā Sōl iungit ab urbe.”- “We Phoenicians do not have minds so dulled, nor the Sun god turned so far away from Tyrian city he yokes horses .”
(Regarding the Trojan War, Queen Dido says that her people are not so ignorant or unfeeling, nor figuratively unenlightened, as to be unaware of its significance. Note: Some Latin texts use the variant “obtunsa,” from obtunsus.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “obtusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obtusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obtusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.