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Latin
Etymology
From ob- (“against; facing”) + via (“road, street, path; way, method”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
obvius (feminine obvia, neuter obvium); first/second-declension adjective
- in the way, who goes or comes to meet
- meeting
- affable, courteous
- (of objects) at hand, ready
- exposed, lying open
- do me obvium alicui ― I expose myself to someone
- (figurative) known, familiar
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “obvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obvius 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)
- obvius 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 some one by chance: obvium or obviam esse, obviam fieri
- (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
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