obliquus

See also: Obliquus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oblīquus.

Noun

obliquus (plural obliqui)

1. (anatomy) An obliquus muscle; a muscle running obliquely.

Related terms

• obliquus capitis inferior muscle
• obliquus oculi inferior

Latin

Alternative forms

• oblīcus

Etymology

Perhaps from ob- (“against”) +‎ licinus (“bent upward”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to bend, to be movable.” However, De Vaan finds no credible Indo-European source and assigns no known etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔbˈliː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [obˈliː.kʷus]

Adjective

oblīquus (feminine oblīqua, neuter oblīquum); first/second-declension adjective

1. sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique
2. In a bad sense, envious, hostile

   Synonyms: īnfestus, inimīcus, īnfēnsus, hostīlis, adversus, āversus, dīversus, inīquus

   Antonyms: affābilis, amīcābilis, facilis, benevolēns

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	oblīquus	oblīqua	oblīquum		oblīquī	oblīquae	oblīqua
genitive	oblīquī	oblīquae	oblīquī		oblīquōrum	oblīquārum	oblīquōrum
dative	oblīquō	oblīquae	oblīquō		oblīquīs
accusative	oblīquum	oblīquam	oblīquum		oblīquōs	oblīquās	oblīqua
ablative	oblīquō	oblīquā	oblīquō		oblīquīs
vocative	oblīque	oblīqua	oblīquum		oblīquī	oblīquae	oblīqua

Derived terms

• oblīquē
• oblīquitās
• oblīquō
• oblīquoloquus

Related terms

• oblīquātiō
• ōrātiō oblīqua (“indirect speech”)
• ōrātiō rēcta (“direct speech”)

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *oblaecus
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: bieco

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: oblic
• → Galician: oblicuo
• → German: Obliquus
• → Italian: obliquo
• → Middle French: oblique
  • French: oblique
  • → English: oblique
• → Portuguese: oblíquo
• → Romanian: oblic
• → Sicilian: ubblicuu
• → Spanish: oblicuo

References

• “obliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “obliquus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in an oblique direction; sideways: in obliquum