Obsidius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔpˈsɪ.di.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [obˈsiː.d̪i.us]

Obsidius m sg (genitive Obsidiī or Obsidī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name"

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• obsidiānus

• “Obsidius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Obsidius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.