different between obliques vs obliquus

English

Noun

obliques

1. Collectively, the abdominal muscles responsible for rotation of the trunk.
2. plural of oblique

French

Adjective

obliques

1. plural of oblique

Latin

Verb

obl?qu?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of obl?qu?

English

Etymology

Latin obl?quus

Noun

obliquus (plural obliqui)

1. (anatomy) An obliquus muscle; a muscle running obliquely.

Related terms

• obliquus capitis inferior muscle

Latin

Alternative forms

• obl?cus

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ob?li?.k?us/, [?b?li?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob?li.kwus/, [?b?li?kwus]

Adjective

obl?quus (feminine obl?qua, neuter obl?quum); first/second-declension adjective

1. sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• obl?qu?
• obl?quit?s
• obl?qu?
• obl?quoloquus

Related terms

• obl?qu?ti?

Descendants

References

• obliquus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obliquus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obliquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.