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English

Etymology

Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.

Pronunciation

Noun

abdo (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Abdomen.
    CT chest abdo pelvis

Derived terms

Adjective

abdo (not comparable)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Abdominal.
    abdo pain

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Clipping of abdominal.

Pronunciation

Noun

abdo m (plural abdos)

  1. (informal, rare in the singular) ab (abdominal muscle)
  2. (informal) crunch (abdominal exercise)
    faire des abdos

See also

Latin

Etymology

From ab- (away) + -dō (put).

Pronunciation

Verb

abdō (present infinitive abdere, perfect active abdidī, supine abditum); third conjugation

  1. to hide, conceal, keep secret, cover, suppress, sheathe
    Synonyms: abscondō, cēlō, contegō, dēfodiō, dissimulō, occultō, occulo, operiō, adoperiō, recondō, tegō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, vēlō, mergō
    Antonyms: patefaciō, adaperiō, aperiō
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.13:
      [] ; quamquam de gloria vix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et []
      [] ; though I had as lief not to speak of glory, when the enemy jeers us with much abuse as if women concealing behind walls, and []
  2. to remove, put away, set aside; banish
    Synonyms: ablēgō, dēpellō, eximō, expellō, exterminō, pellō, prōiciō, relēgō, submoveō, auferō, dētrahō, relēgō, āvertō
  3. (often with se) to betake oneself, go away, go and hide
    Synonyms: abambulō, abeō, abscēdō, dēcēdō, discēdō
    Antonyms: accēdō, adeō, adventō
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.12:
      Eos impeditos et inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.
      Attacking them encumbered with baggage, and not expecting him, he cut to pieces a great part of them; the rest betook themselves to flight, and concealed themselves in the nearest woods.

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References

  • abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abdo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be quite engrossed in literary studies: se totum in litteras or se litteris abdere
    • to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam
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