obruo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈo.bru.oː/, [ˈɔ.brʊ.oː]
Verb
obruō (present infinitive obruere, perfect active obruī, supine obrutum); third conjugation
- I overwhelm or overthrow
- 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos
- […] ingens curarum moles, quibus in concilianda publici ordinis restitutione obruti fuimus, moram tunc nostrae huic obiecit voluntati.
- 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos
- I bury or conceal
Inflection
References
- obruo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obruo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be engulfed: fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi
- to be overwhelmed with misfortune: calamitatibus obrui
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: oblivione obrui, deleri, exstingui
- to be engulfed: fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi
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