obsessio
From LSJ
διὰ λαμπροτάτου βαίνοντες ἁβρῶς αἰθέρος → passing lightly through clear-shining air (Euripides, Medea 829)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
obsessĭo: ōnis, f. obsideo,
I a blocking up, besieging, encompassing, a blockade of a place (class.): obsessio templorum, Cic. Dom. 3, 5: militaris viae, id. Pis. 17, 40: castrorum, Suet. Caes. 58: obsessionem alicuius omittere, Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.>
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
obsessĭō,¹³ ōnis, f., action d’assiéger, siège, blocus : [de villes] Cic. Mur. 33 ; Balbo 6 ; [de temples] Cic. Domo 5 || occupation [d’une route] : Cic. Pis. 40.
Latin > German (Georges)
obsessio, ōnis, f. (obsideo), das Besetztsein, die Einschließung, Blockade, templorum, Cic.: viae, Cic.: hominum, Caes.
Latin > English
obsessio obsessionis N F :: blockade, siege; obsession (Cal)
