obstruo
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈob.stru.oː/, [ˈɔps̠t̪ruoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈob.stru.o/, [ˈɔbst̪ruo]
Verb
obstruō (present infinitive obstruere, perfect active obstrūxī, supine obstrūctum); third conjugation
- to build before or against; build, block, or wall up; stop up, barricade, render impassable
- to obstruct, stop up, hinder, impede
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “obstruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obstruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obstruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to obstruct a road; to close a route: iter obstruere
- to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
- to obstruct a person's view, shut out his light by building: luminibus alicuius obstruere, officere
- to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
- to obstruct a road; to close a route: iter obstruere
Portuguese
Verb
obstruo