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absorbeo

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From ab- + sorbeō (suck in, drink down, swallow).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    absorbeō (present infinitive absorbēre, perfect active absorbuī, supine absorptum); second conjugation

    1. to swallow down, devour
    2. to absorb, submerge
    3. (figuratively) to absorb, engross

    Conjugation

    • The third principal part may be absorbuī or absorpsī.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • absorbeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • absorbeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • absorbeo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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