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obstet

obstet is a Latin form of obsto, meaning “stand in the way, hinder, oppose (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.53: … quidem ut nulla re umquam terreamur semperque simus invicti. sequitur, ut nihil paeniteat, nihil desit, nihil obstet; ergo omnia profluenter absolute prospere, igitur beate. satis autem virtus ad fortiter vivendum potest; sati …

All forms of obsto (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.