obvius

From ob- (“against; facing”) +‎ via (“road, street, path; way, method”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈob.u̯i.us/, [ˈɔbu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈob.vi.us/, [ˈɔbvius]

obvius (feminine obvia, neuter obvium); first/second-declension adjective

1. in the way, who goes or comes to meet
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.10:

     fit obvius cum exercitu Romulus

     Romulus came upon them with his army

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.28:

     Ut si [...] obviam contra veniretur [...] depugnarent

     In order that if someone should comes opposite, fight against him

2. meeting
3. affable, courteous
4. (of objects) at hand, ready
5. exposed, lying open

   do me obvium alicui ― I expose myself to someone

6. (figurative) known, familiar

First/second-declension adjective.

• obviam
• obviō

• Romanian: uib

Borrowings:

• “obvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obvius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• obvius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to meet some one by chance: obvium or obviam esse, obviam fieri
    
  • (ambiguous) to meet any one: obviam ire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to meet some one: obviam venire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to meet some one by chance: obvium or obviam esse, obviam fieri
    
  • (ambiguous) to send to meet a person: obviam alicui aliquem mittere
    
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