obsessus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of obsideō.

Participle

obsessus (feminine obsessa, neuter obsessum); first/second-declension participle

1. inhabited
2. besieged, blockaded
   • c. 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4‎:

     Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.

     The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.

3. detained, constrained, surrounded, held captive
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.6:

     Quamdiū quisquam erit, quī tē dēfendere audeat, vīvēs, et vīvēs ita ut nunc vīvīs: multīs meīs et firmīs praesidiīs obsessus, nē commovēre tē contrā rem pūblicam possīs.

     As long as there is anyone who dares to defend you, you will live, and you will live the same way as you live now: detained by many strong guards of mine, so that you cannot move yourself against the republic.

4. obsessed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	obsessus	obsessa	obsessum		obsessī	obsessae	obsessa
genitive	obsessī	obsessae	obsessī		obsessōrum	obsessārum	obsessōrum
dative	obsessō	obsessae	obsessō		obsessīs
accusative	obsessum	obsessam	obsessum		obsessōs	obsessās	obsessa
ablative	obsessō	obsessā	obsessō		obsessīs
vocative	obsesse	obsessa	obsessum		obsessī	obsessae	obsessa

Descendants

• Spanish: obseso

References

• “obsessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obsessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "obsessus", 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)
• “obsessus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.