obnixus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of obnītor.

Participle

obnīxus (feminine obnīxa, neuter obnīxum); first/second-declension participle

1. struggled against
2. resisted, opposed
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.331–332:

     Dīxerat. Ille Iovis monitīs immōta tenēbat
     lūmina, et obnīxus cūram sub corde premēbat.

     [Dido] had spoken. Aeneas – mindful of Jupiter’s [counsel] – held his gaze steady, and resisted the grief concealed in his heart.
     (Similar to: Aeneid 1.208-209.)

3. steadfast, firm, resolute

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	obnīxus	obnīxa	obnīxum		obnīxī	obnīxae	obnīxa
genitive	obnīxī	obnīxae	obnīxī		obnīxōrum	obnīxārum	obnīxōrum
dative	obnīxō	obnīxae	obnīxō		obnīxīs
accusative	obnīxum	obnīxam	obnīxum		obnīxōs	obnīxās	obnīxa
ablative	obnīxō	obnīxā	obnīxō		obnīxīs
vocative	obnīxe	obnīxa	obnīxum		obnīxī	obnīxae	obnīxa

References

• “obnixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obnixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obnixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.