obliquus
See also: Obliquus
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editobliquus (plural obliqui)
- (anatomy) An obliquus muscle; a muscle running obliquely.
Related terms
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPerhaps from ob- (“against”) + licinus (“bent upward”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to bend, to be movable.”[1] However, de Vaan finds no credible Indo-European source and assigns no known etymology.[2]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /obˈliː.kʷus/, [ɔbˈlʲiːkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /obˈli.kwus/, [obˈliːkwus]
Adjective
editoblīquus (feminine oblīqua, neuter oblīquum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | oblīquus | oblīqua | oblīquum | oblīquī | oblīquae | oblīqua | |
Genitive | oblīquī | oblīquae | oblīquī | oblīquōrum | oblīquārum | oblīquōrum | |
Dative | oblīquō | oblīquō | oblīquīs | ||||
Accusative | oblīquum | oblīquam | oblīquum | oblīquōs | oblīquās | oblīqua | |
Ablative | oblīquō | oblīquā | oblīquō | oblīquīs | |||
Vocative | oblīque | oblīqua | oblīquum | oblīquī | oblīquae | oblīqua |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “obliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obliquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- in an oblique direction; sideways: in obliquum
- in an oblique direction; sideways: in obliquum
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “oblique”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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