obeliscus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos). === Noun === obeliscus m (genitive obeliscī); second declension obelisk (all senses) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “obeliscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “obeliscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “obeliscus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “obeliscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “obeliscus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin