obsisto
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Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /obˈsis.toː/, [ɔpˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /obˈsis.to/, [obˈsist̪o]
Verb[edit]
obsistō (present infinitive obsistere, perfect active obstitī, supine obstitum); third conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to place oneself before
- to oppose or resist
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.29:
- Cuius consensui ne orbis quidem terrarum possit obsistere
- The union of which not even the whole world could withstand
- Cuius consensui ne orbis quidem terrarum possit obsistere
- to make a stand
Conjugation[edit]
- Despite being impersonal in the passive, this verb has a non-impersonal perfect passive participle obstitus (“opposite, inimical”).
References[edit]
- “obsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obsisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.