obesus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obedō (“eat away, devour”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oˈbeː.sus/, [ɔˈbeːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈbe.sus/, [oˈbɛːs̬us]
Participle
obēsus (feminine obēsa, neuter obēsum); first/second-declension participle
- eaten away, devoured, having been eaten away
- wasted away, lean, meagre, having been wasted away
- (that is wasted away with fat) fat, stout, plump, obese
- (figuratively) gross, heavy, dull, coarse
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | obēsus | obēsa | obēsum | obēsī | obēsae | obēsa | |
| Genitive | obēsī | obēsae | obēsī | obēsōrum | obēsārum | obēsōrum | |
| Dative | obēsō | obēsō | obēsīs | ||||
| Accusative | obēsum | obēsam | obēsum | obēsōs | obēsās | obēsa | |
| Ablative | obēsō | obēsā | obēsō | obēsīs | |||
| Vocative | obēse | obēsa | obēsum | obēsī | obēsae | obēsa | |
Descendants
- Catalan: obès
- → English: obese
- French: obèse
- Galician: obeso
- Italian: obeso
- Portuguese: obeso
- Romanian: obez
- Spanish: obeso
References
- “obesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obesus 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)
- obesus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette