oblivio

Ido

Noun

oblivio (plural oblivii)

1. oversight

Latin

Etymology

From oblīvīscor (“I forget”) +‎ -iō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /obˈliː.u̯i.oː/, [ɔbˈlʲiːu̯ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /obˈli.vi.o/, [obˈliːvio]

Noun

oblīviō f (genitive oblīviōnis); third declension

1. The act of forgetting, forgetfulness.
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 5 39:

     Inter cētera in eō mīrātī sunt hominēs et oblīviōnem et incōnsīderantiam, vel ut Graecē dīcam, μετεωρίαν et ἀβλεψίαν. Occisā Messālīnā, paulō post quam in trīclīniō dēcubuit, cūr domina non venīret requisiit.

     Among other things, people were amazed at his forgetfulness and inconsiderateness, or, as they say in Greek, μετεωρίαν and ἀβλεψίαν. With Messalina killed, soon after sitting down in the triclinium, he asked why the empress doesn't come.

2. The state of being forgotten, oblivion.
3. an amnesty

   Synonyms: amnēstia, indulgentia, remissiō, venia

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	oblīviō	oblīviōnēs
genitive	oblīviōnis	oblīviōnum
dative	oblīviōnī	oblīviōnibus
accusative	oblīviōnem	oblīviōnēs
ablative	oblīviōne	oblīviōnibus
vocative	oblīviō	oblīviōnēs

Synonyms

• (an amnesty): amnestia (Grecian)

Derived terms

• oblīviālis
• oblīviōsus
• oblīvius

Related terms

• oblītus
• oblīvīscor
• oblīvium

Descendants

• → Catalan: oblivió
• → Old French: oblivion
  • → English: oblivion
• → Italian: oblivione

References

• “oblivio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oblivio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oblivio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
    
  • I forget something: oblivio alicuius rei me capit
    
  • to make a person forget a thing: aliquem in oblivionem alicuius rei adducere (pass. in oblivionem venire)
    
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: oblivioni esse, dari
    
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: in oblivionem adduci
    
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: oblivione obrui, deleri, exstingui
    
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: in oblivione iacēre (of persons)
    
  • to rescue from oblivion: aliquid ab oblivione vindicare
    
  • amnesty (ἀμνηρτία): ante actarum (praeteritarum) rerum oblivio or simply oblivio
    
  • to proclaim a general amnesty: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna delere (Phil. 1. 1. 1)