obliquus

From Latin oblīquus.

obliquus (plural obliqui)

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

• obliquus capitis inferior muscle
• obliquus oculi inferior

• oblīcus

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔbˈliː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [obˈliː.kʷus]

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• oblīquē
• oblīquitās
• oblīquō
• oblīquoloquus

• oblīquātiō

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in an oblique direction; sideways: in obliquum