obrutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of obruō.

Participle

obrutus (feminine obruta, neuter obrutum); first/second-declension participle

1. overwhelmed, overthrown
2. buried, concealed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	obrutus	obruta	obrutum		obrutī	obrutae	obruta
genitive	obrutī	obrutae	obrutī		obrutōrum	obrutārum	obrutōrum
dative	obrutō	obrutae	obrutō		obrutīs
accusative	obrutum	obrutam	obrutum		obrutōs	obrutās	obruta
ablative	obrutō	obrutā	obrutō		obrutīs
vocative	obrute	obruta	obrutum		obrutī	obrutae	obruta

Derived terms

• inobrutus

References

• “obrutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obrutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obrutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse
    
  • to be virtuous: virtute praeditum, ornatum esse (opp. vitiis obrutum esse)
    
  • to be vicious, criminal: vitiis, sceleribus inquinatum, contaminatum, obrutum esse
    
  • to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse