sorbilo

sorbilo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
Proto-Italic *sorβeō
Latin sorbeō
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -ilis
Latin sorbilis
Proto-Italic *-ōd
Latin -ō
Latin sorbilō

    From sorbilis (“able to be sucked up”) + -ō.

    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    sorbilō (not comparable)

    1. by sucking
      • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.397:
        nam mihi iam video propter te victitandum sorbilo
        From now on, thanks to you, I see I will have to subsist on a liquid diet

    References

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