obductus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of obdūcō.

Participle

obductus (feminine obducta, neuter obductum); first/second-declension participle

1. led or conducted forwards
2. enveloped, concealed, hidden, covered; has been enveloped, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.604–606:

     “‘Aspice! Namque omnem quae nunc obductā tuentī
     mortālīs hebetat vīsus tibi et ūmida circum
     cālīgat, nūbem ēripiam [...].’”

     “‘Behold! And for everything which ’til now has concealed [the gods] from sight, dulls your mortal vision, and darkens with mist all around – I shall take away the cloud.’”
     (Venus allows her mortal son, Aeneas, to see the other gods who are destroying the city of Troy.)

3. closed; blocked

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	obductus	obducta	obductum		obductī	obductae	obducta
genitive	obductī	obductae	obductī		obductōrum	obductārum	obductōrum
dative	obductō	obductae	obductō		obductīs
accusative	obductum	obductam	obductum		obductōs	obductās	obducta
ablative	obductō	obductā	obductō		obductīs
vocative	obducte	obducta	obductum		obductī	obductae	obducta

References

• “obductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam