obacero
Latin
Etymology
According to Festus, from ob- + Ancient Greek ἄχυρον (ákhuron, “chaff, bran”) + -ō.[1] Alternatively formed within Latin on its cognate acus (“chaff, bran”, oblique stem in acer-) (pre-classical or rare).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔˈba.kɛ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈbaː.t͡ʃe.ro]
Verb
obacerō (present infinitive obacerāre, perfect active obacerāvī, supine obacerātum); first conjugation (only attested in a gloss from Festus)
- to contradict
- to interrupt
Conjugation
Conjugation of obacerō (first conjugation)
Related terms
References
- ^ 2nd century CE (Sextus Pompeius Festus), De Significatione Verborum (in Latin), page 187: “Obacerare obloqui atque alterius sermonem moleste impedire; quod sumptum videtur a paleis, quas Gracci ἄχυρα vocant. Itaque ut frumentum et panis non sine paleis acerosus dicitur; item lutum aceratum paleis mixtum.”
Further reading
- “obacero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obacero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.