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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 nundinary nundinal nundination Traffic at fairs; buying and selling. nundine A market or fair held every eight days, particularly (historical) in Roman contexts. nutate To rock or sway involuntarily. nutrication feeding or nourishment nutricial Relating to a nurse. nutriture nutrition; nourishment ob- Against; facing; a combining prefix found in verbs of Latin origin. obambulation Wandering about; a casual outing. obduction The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering. obduration A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. oberration A wandering about. obfirm To make firm or stubborn. obfirmation stubbornness; obduracy. objicient One who makes objection; an objector. objurgation A strong rebuke or scolding. objurgatory Strongly rebuking or scolding. obliquation The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side obluctation opposition; resistance obreption The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise. obreptitious Done or obtained by surprise, with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth. obrogate To annul a law by enacting a new law, as opposed to repealing the former law. obscurum per obscurius Synonym of ignotum per ignotius (“explaining an obscure subject by resort to one even more obscure”). obsequent Obedient; submissive; obsequious. observandum A thing to be observed. obsignation The act of sealing or ratifying. obsolesce To become or be rendered obsolete; to undergo obsolescence. obstancy Opposition, impediment, or obstruction. obstination stubbornness obstriction The state of being constrained, bound, obliged, or obligated. obstupefaction stupefaction obtected covered; protected obtend To oppose; to hold out in opposition. obtenebration The act of darkening, or darkness. obtension The act of obtending. obtestation The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. obtrude To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. obtruncation The act of lopping or cutting off. obtund To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. obtundent A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; – nearly the same as demulcent. obturaculum A plug of connective tissue separating the hemocoels of the head and thorax of some lice obturation The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening. obtusangular obtuse-angled obtusity obtuseness obvention The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage. obversant conversant; familiar or in the know about a certain topic. obversion The act of turning toward or downward. obvolute overlapping; contorted; convoluted obvolve To enfold or wrap around; to cover by wrapping. obvolvent Curved downward or inward. occasive Of or pertaining to the setting sun occecation The act of making blind occiduous Western; occidental. occipital bone The bone at the back of the skull in humans and various other animals. occluse shut; closed occurse Synonym of occursion (“joining or striking together”). occursion A meeting or striking together; a clash or collision. ocelloccipital Relating to the ocellus and the occiput ocrea A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. octans A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an octant. It lies closest to the southern celestial pole of any constellation. octic Of the eighth degree or order. octofid Cleft or separated into eight segments. octogenary Of or related to the number 80, particularly octonary Of eighth rank or order. octovirate A group of eight people, especially (politics) a council of eight men who share office or rule. oculiform Having the shape of an eye oculolinctus A paraphilia involving licking the eyeballs. Odaenathus Septimius Odaenathus, the first king of the Palmyrene kingdom, who reigned from A.D. 260 to A. D. 267 odible Fit to excite hatred; hateful, odious. odium generis humani Hatred for the human race. odorament Something which gives off a scent; an odoriferous substance. odorate odorous odorometer A device used to measure the intensity of a smell oecium The household common to the individuals of a compound organism. oenomel A beverage made of wine and honey. Oenus A river in Laconia which flows into the Eurotas, now Kelefina oestrum A biting insect; a gadfly or botfly. oesypum Refuse from wool. of blessed memory Honorific epithet used parenthetically to mark a beloved person as being deceased. offerture offer; proposal -ol An alcohol or phenol. -ola Used to form the names of several commercial companies and products. -ole in the Hantzsch–Widman nomenclature for naming heterocycles, denotes an unsaturated five-membered ring system with nitrogen oleiferous That produces oil olent scented oleo- oil or oil-based materials oleogustus A proposed basic taste sensation triggered by fatty acids. oleosaccharum An oil-sugar; a preparation made by saturating thirty grains of sugar with one drop of volatile oil. oleose oily oleraceous Relating to potherbs. olfact To smell. olfactible Having an odor; capable of being smelled. olfactic Referring to the olfactory senses or the sense of smell. olfacto- smell olitory Of or pertaining to a kitchen garden; used for culinary purposes. olusatrum An umbelliferous plant, the common alexanders, found in Western Europe (Smyrnium olusatrum). Olynthus An ancient city in Chalcidice, modern Chalkidiki regional unit, Greece. omination presage; omen. omissible Able to be omitted. omni- all