Perfect active participle of intransitiveobsolēscō(“wear out, fall into disuse”).
obsolētus (feminineobsolēta,neuterobsolētum,comparativeobsolētior,adverbobsolētē);first/second-declension participle
- old,worn out,thrown off
- obsolete,out-of-date
- common,ordinary,mean,low
First/second-declension adjective.
- “obsoletus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsoletus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "obsoletus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “obsoletus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- obsolete, ambiguous expressions:prisca, obsoleta (opp.usitata),ambigua verba
- cast-off clothing:vestitus obsoletus, tritus