obversor Latin · revision 32522

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la vertō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔbˈwɛr.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [obˈvɛr.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obversor''' (present infinitive obversārī, perfect active obversātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ob-|versor|t1=before, against|t2=to move about]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|versor]] is the deponent of [[m|la|versō|t=to turn often]], a frequentative of [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Priscian records an active form obversō, which the TLL thinks was probably invented.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's examples begin with Livy, who tells of soldiers loitering about while living on a king's pay.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to move about where one can be seen, to go to and fro, as in Livy's report that many were openly about in Carthage.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to get in someone's way: Seneca asks why a cough or a dog crossing our path should drive us to rage.^(OLD 2012) Of ideas and images it means to appear before the mind's eye: Livy asks whether the memory of a night did not rise before them.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it oppose, withstand, resist.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of soldiers loitering and of a memory.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca the Younger of a dog crossing one's path.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move about in view, go to and fro; to get in someone's way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of ideas or images, to [[m|en|appear]] before the eyes or mind, [[m|en|haunt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|oppose]], withstand, [[m|en|resist]].^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[verso|alt=versō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}