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obrutus

obrutus is a Latin form of obruo, meaning “overwhelm, bury, cover over”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.20: … ponderet, deliberaret. deinde reliquis diebus his criminibus, his testibus, et urbanis et provincialibus, sic obrutus atque oppressus est ut his ludorum diebus interpositis nemo istum comperendinatum, sed condemnatum iudicaret.

Ovid, Heroides 1.6: Obrutus insanis esset adulter aquis!

All forms of obruo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.