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obsessa

obsessa is a Latin form of obsideo, meaning “besiege, blockade; occupy, beset”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 30: pater occisus nefarie, domus obsessa ab inimicis, bona adempta, possessa, direpta, fili vita infesta, saepe ferro atque insidiis appetita. quid ab …

Jerome, Epistolae 60.16·2: Obsessa Antiochia et urbes reliquae, quas Halys, Cydnus, Orontes Eufratesque praeterfluunt. Tracti greges captivorum; …

All forms of obsideo (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.