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obstruo
obstruo
Latin
Verb
obstruō (present infinitive obstruere, perfect active obstruxī, supine obstructum); third conjugation
Inflection
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “obstruo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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