abripio

abripio

Latin

Etymology

    From ab- (from, away from) + rapiō (grab, seize, snatch).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    abripiō (present infinitive abripere, perfect active abripuī, supine abreptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

    1. to take away (by violence); snatch, drag or tear off or away
    2. (figuratively, of rivers) to wash, blow away
    3. (figuratively) to carry off, remove, detach
    4. (figuratively) to 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