See obex on Wiktionary
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"barrier",
"barrier"
],
[
"wall",
"wall"
]
],
"qualifier": "literal",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literal) a bolt, bar; a barrier, wall"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sera"
},
{
"word": "pessulus"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "…, five days after, he (Pompey) found another dark and cloudy night where, the camp's entrances walled up and, to make their forcing even harder, obstacles having been laid, he led stealthly his host out at the third watch (around midnight) and made back to his previous defense works.",
"ref": "c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.54",
"text": "…, et quique intermissis diebus alteram noctem subnubilam nactus obstructis omnibus castrorum portis et ad impediendum obicibus obiectis tertia inita vigilia silentio exercitum eduxit et se in antiquas munitiones recipit."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a hindrance, impediment, obstacle"
],
"links": [
[
"hindrance",
"hindrance"
],
[
"impediment",
"impediment"
],
[
"obstacle",
"obstacle"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense) a hindrance, impediment, obstacle"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈo.beks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɔːbeks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"other": "/objik-/"
},
{
"other": "/j/"
},
{
"other": "/ob/"
},
{
"other": "/o/"
},
{
"other": "/b/"
},
{
"other": "/ji/"
},
{
"other": "/ob.ji.ki.bus/"
},
{
"other": "/o.bi/"
},
{
"other": "/oː/"
},
{
"other": "/uː/"
},
{
"other": "/ji/"
},
{
"other": "/oː/"
},
{
"other": "/ob.jeks/"
},
{
"other": "/j/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"fr:Jacques André"
],
"word": "obex"
}
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