obductus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of obdūcō.

Participle

obductus (feminine obducta, neuter obductum); first/second-declension participle

  1. led or conducted forwards
  2. enveloped, concealed, hidden, covered; has been enveloped, etc.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.604–606:
      “‘Aspice! Namque omnem quae nunc obductā tuentī
      mortālīs hebetat vīsus tibi et ūmida circum
      cālīgat, nūbem ēripiam [...].’”
      “‘Behold! And for everything which ’til now has concealed [the gods] from sight, dulls your mortal vision, and darkens with mist all around – I shall take away the cloud.’”
      (Venus allows her mortal son, Aeneas, to see the other gods who are destroying the city of Troy.)
  3. closed; blocked

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative obductus obducta obductum obductī obductae obducta
Genitive obductī obductae obductī obductōrum obductārum obductōrum
Dative obductō obductō obductīs
Accusative obductum obductam obductum obductōs obductās obducta
Ablative obductō obductā obductō obductīs
Vocative obducte obducta obductum obductī obductae obducta

References
  • “obductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “obductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • obductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam
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