obluctor Latin · revision 33618

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *lug-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔbˈɫuːk.tɔr], [ɔbˈɫʊk.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [obˈluk.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''oblū̆ctor''' (present infinitive oblū̆ctārī, perfect active oblū̆ctātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The length of the ⟨u⟩ is uncertain.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ob-|luctor|t2=to wrestle, struggle]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) like [[m|la|colluctor]].^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|luctor]] to [[itc-pro|*lukto-]] and [[ine-pro|*lug-to-|t=bent]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|λύγος|tr=lúgos|t=withy, twigs]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Virgil on, once in his work;^(TLL) in the ''Aeneid'' a speaker struggles with his knees against the opposing sand, ''genibus adversae obluctor harenae''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to exert pressure against something, to offer resistance or struggle with it, usually with a dative:^(OLD 2012) Columella has it of shrubs, Curtius of a river, and Statius of rocks that resist.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to struggle against conditions: Curtius has a mind always struggling against difficulties and someone still struggling against oblivion, and Lucan has it of death.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also to contend with an opponent, as in Silius' “to contend alone with Fabius”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Charisius lists it among verbs of middle meaning.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of struggling against the sand.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius, of struggling against difficulties and oblivion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus, of contending with Fabius.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|struggle]] against, offer [[m|en|resistance]] to.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To struggle against conditions;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) to [[m|en|contend]] with an opponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[obluctatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[luctor]]

+ * [[colluctor]]

+ * [[reluctor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}