obliquus

See also: Obliquus

English

Etymology

Latin oblīquus

Noun

obliquus (plural obliqui)

  1. (anatomy) An obliquus muscle; a muscle running obliquely.
  • obliquus capitis inferior muscle

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps 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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /obˈliː.kʷus/, [ɔbˈlʲiːkʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /obˈli.kwus/, [obˈliːkwus]

Adjective

oblīquus (feminine oblīqua, neuter oblīquum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique
  2. In a bad sense, envious, hostile
    Synonyms: īnfestus, inimīcus, īnfēnsus, hostīlis, adversus, āversus, dīversus, inīquus
    Antonyms: affābilis, amīcābilis, facilis, benevolēns

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
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
  • oblīquātiō

Descendants
  • Catalan: oblic
  • English: oblique
  • French: oblique
  • Galician: oblicuo
  • Italian: obliquo, bieco
  • Portuguese: oblíquo
  • Romanian: oblic
  • Sicilian: ubblicuu
  • Spanish: oblicuo

References
  • “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in an oblique direction; sideways: in obliquum
  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “oblique”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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