obses
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ob (“in front of”) + sedeō (“sit”) + -s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈob.ses/, [ˈɔps̠ɛs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈob.ses/, [ˈɔbses]
Noun
[edit]obses m or f (genitive obsidis); third declension
- a hostage
- (figuratively) a security, pledge
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | obses | obsidēs |
genitive | obsidis | obsidum |
dative | obsidī | obsidibus |
accusative | obsidem | obsidēs |
ablative | obside | obsidibus |
vocative | obses | obsidēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Old Polish: obsiadły (calque)
References
[edit]- “obses”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obses”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obses in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- obses in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to give hostages: obsides dare
- (ambiguous) to compel communities to provide hostages: obsides civitatibus imperare
- (ambiguous) to give hostages: obsides dare
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-
- Latin compound terms
- Latin terms suffixed with -s
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin nouns with multiple genders
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook