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obiens
obiens
Latin
Participle
obiēns m, f, n (genitive obeuntis); third declension
- going towards, going to meet
- arriving, reaching, coming to.
- (astronomy) setting
- (figuratively) falling, perishing
- (figuratively) surveying, looking over
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | obiēns | obeuntēs | obeuntia | ||
| genitive | obeuntis | obeuntium | |||
| dative | obeuntī | obeuntibus | |||
| accusative | obeuntem | obiēns | obeuntēs | obeuntia | |
| ablative | obeunte, obeuntī1 | obeuntibus | |||
| vocative | obiēns | obeuntēs | obeuntia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- obiens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “obiens”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.