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obvia

obvia is a Latin form of obvius, meaning “in the way, meeting; exposed; (obviam) toward, to meet”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 138 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.2.2: … orem accedere. Terentia vero, quae quidem eodem tempore ad portam Brundisinam venit quo ego in portum mihique obvia in foro fuit, L. Pontium sibi in Trebulano dixisse narrabat etiam eam decessisse. quod si ita est, est quod m …

Vergil, Aeneid 11.498: Obvia cui Volscorum acie comitante Camilla

Suetonius, Divus Claudius 10.2: … positus et, quia sui diffugerant uicissim succollantibus in castra delatus est tristis ac trepidus, miserante obuia turba quasi ad poenam raperetur insons.

All forms of obvius (declension 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.