elabor

elabor

Latin

Etymology

    From ex- (out, away) + lābor (slip, slide, glide).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    ēlābor (present infinitive ēlābī, perfect active ēlāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent

    1. to slip or glide away
      Synonym: prōlābor
    2. to escape
      Synonyms: fugiō, ēvādō, cōnfugiō, aufugiō, prōfugiō, diffugiō, effugiō, refugiō, perfugiō, āvolō, ēripiō, lābor
    3. to elapse
    4. to fall (off, as with leaves)

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    • English: elabe, elapse

    References

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

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