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obvium

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

Found 44 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.7: … m ceteris fortunae condicionem subire, non dubitaverim me gravissimis tempestatibus ac paene fulminibus ipsis obvium ferre conservandorum civium causa meisque propriis periculis parere commune reliquis otium.

Suetonius, Divus Julius 63.1: … per angustias Hellesponti uectoria nauicula traiceret, L. Cassium partis aduersae cum decem rostratis nauibus obuium sibi neque refugit et comminus tendens, ultro ad deditionem hortatus, supplicem ad se recepit.

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.