obliquus.
sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique
Meaning & usage
sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique
In a bad sense, envious, hostile
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from ob- (“against”) + licinus (“bent upward”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to bend, to be movable.” However, De Vaan finds no credible Indo-European source and assigns no known etymology.
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