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Latin
Adjective
obviam
- accusative feminine singular of obvius
Adverb
obviam (not comparable)
- in the way
- against
- obviam ire alicui ― to encounter someone, to meet someone
References
- “obviam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obviam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obviam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to meet any one: obviam ire alicui
- (ambiguous) to go to meet some one: obviam venire alicui
- (ambiguous) to meet some one by chance: obvium or obviam esse, obviam fieri
- (ambiguous) to send to meet a person: obviam alicui aliquem mittere
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
Portuguese
Verb
obviam
- third-person plural present indicative of obviar