abripio
Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“from, away from”) + rapiō (“grab, seize, snatch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /abˈri.pi.oː/, [äbˈrɪpioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈri.pi.o/, [äbˈriːpio]
Verb
abripiō (present infinitive abripere, perfect active abripuī, supine abreptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I take away (by violence); snatch, drag or tear off or away.
- (figuratively, of rivers) I wash, blow away.
- (figuratively) I carry off, remove, detach.
- (figuratively) I squander, dissipate.
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: abreption
References
- “abripio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abripio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abripio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi
- to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi