imbibo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪm.bɪ.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈim.bi.bo]

Verb

imbibō (present infinitive imbibere, perfect active imbibī); third conjugation, no supine stem

1. to drink in, imbibe
2. to assimilate
3. to conceive (an idea)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of imbibō (third conjugation, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	imbibō		imbibis		imbibit		imbibimus		imbibitis		imbibunt
	imperfect	imbibēbam		imbibēbās		imbibēbat		imbibēbāmus		imbibēbātis		imbibēbant
	future	imbibam		imbibēs		imbibet		imbibēmus		imbibētis		imbibent
	perfect	imbibī		imbibistī		imbibit		imbibimus		imbibistis		imbibērunt, imbibēre
	pluperfect	imbiberam		imbiberās		imbiberat		imbiberāmus		imbiberātis		imbiberant
	future perfect	imbiberō		imbiberis		imbiberit		imbiberimus		imbiberitis		imbiberint
passive	present	imbibor		imbiberis, imbibere		imbibitur		imbibimur		imbibiminī		imbibuntur
	imperfect	imbibēbar		imbibēbāris, imbibēbāre		imbibēbātur		imbibēbāmur		imbibēbāminī		imbibēbantur
	future	imbibar		imbibēris, imbibēre		imbibētur		imbibēmur		imbibēminī		imbibentur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	imbibam		imbibās		imbibat		imbibāmus		imbibātis		imbibant
	imperfect	imbiberem		imbiberēs		imbiberet		imbiberēmus		imbiberētis		imbiberent
	perfect	imbiberim		imbiberīs		imbiberit		imbiberīmus		imbiberītis		imbiberint
	pluperfect	imbibissem		imbibissēs		imbibisset		imbibissēmus		imbibissētis		imbibissent
passive	present	imbibar		imbibāris, imbibāre		imbibātur		imbibāmur		imbibāminī		imbibantur
	imperfect	imbiberer		imbiberēris, imbiberēre		imbiberētur		imbiberēmur		imbiberēminī		imbiberentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		imbibe		—		—		imbibite		—
	future	—		imbibitō		imbibitō		—		imbibitōte		imbibuntō
passive	present	—		imbibere		—		—		imbibiminī		—
	future	—		imbibitor		imbibitor		—		—		imbibuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		imbibere			imbibī			imbibēns			—
future		—			—			—			imbibendus, imbibundus
perfect		imbibisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		imbibendī		imbibendō		imbibendum		imbibendō		—		—

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: imbevere
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Old French: embeivre, embeire
      • French: emboire
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: embeure
    • Occitan: embeure, embéver
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: embeber
  • Spanish: embeber
• Borrowings:
  • → French: imbiber
    • → Romanian: îmbiba
  • → Italian: imbibire
  • → Middle English: imbiben
    • English: imbibe

References

• “imbibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imbibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imbibo 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 imbibing false opinions: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
    
  • to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmbĭbĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 567