imbibo

Latin

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti

Proto-Italic *pibō

Latin bibō

Latin imbibō

From in- + bibō.

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

to drink in, imbibe
to assimilate
to conceive (an idea)

Conjugation

Conjugation of imbibō (third conjugation, no supine stem)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		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
subjunctive		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
passive	imperfect	imbiberer	imbiberēris, imbiberēre		imbiberētur	imbiberēmur	imbiberēminī		imbiberentur
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	imbibe		—	—	imbibite		—
active	future	—	imbibitō		imbibitō	—	imbibitōte		imbibuntō
passive	present	—	imbibere		—	—	imbibiminī		—
passive	future	—	imbibitor		imbibitor	—	—		imbibuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		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, imbrue, embrue

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 (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 567