oboedio

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *óbawizdijō. By surface analysis, ob- +‎ audiō. In Latin, ob + audire would have been expected to become Classical Latin *obūdiō (compare in + claudō becoming inclūdō), but it has been theorized that the usual law court associations of the word for obeying encouraged a false archaism from ū to oe, to oboediō (compare Old Latin oinos → Classical Latin ūnus).

Pronunciation

Verb

oboediō (present infinitive oboedīre, perfect active oboedīvī or oboediī, supine oboedītum); fourth conjugation

  1. to obey, yield obedience to (+dative of person obeyed)
    Synonyms: obtemperō, obsequor, pāreō, mōrigeror
    Antonym: recalcitrō
  2. to be subject to, to serve
    Synonyms: serviō, appāreō

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • From oboedire
    • Catalan: obeir
    • Friulian: ubidî
    • Italian: ubbidire, obbedire, ubidire (literary)
    • Piedmontese: ubidì
    • Sicilian: ubbidiri
    • Old French: obeir (learned)
  • From *oboediscere

References

  • oboedio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • oboedio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • oboedio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN