Infinitive
absorbi
Forms
Tenses
| Present | absorbas |
| Past | absorbis |
| Future | absorbos |
| Conditional | absorbus |
| Imperative | absorbu! |
Participles
| Active past | absorbinta |
| Active present | absorbanta |
| Active future | absorbonta |
| Passive past | absorbita |
| Passive present | absorbta |
| Passive future | absorbota |
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
3. Proto-Indo-European *-o
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
5. Proto-Italic *ap
6. Latin abder.
7. Latin ab-
8. Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
12. Proto-Italic *sorβeō
13. Latin sorbeō
14. Latin absorbeō
15. Old French assorbir
16. Middle French absorberder.
17. English absorbder.
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19. Latin absorbeō
20. Latin absorbērelbor.
21. French absorberder.
22. German absorbierender.
23. ▲
24. French absorberbor.
25. Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.?
26. Proto-Slavic *-ovati
27. Old Polish -ować
28. Polish -ować
29. Polish absorbowaćder.
30. Esperanto absorbi
31. From English absorb, French absorber, German absorbieren, Polish absorbować; ultimately from Latin absorbeō. First attested in 1892 in the participle form absorbita. See: English '
absorb', French '
absorber', German, old spelling '
absorbieren', Polish '
absorbować', Latin '
absorbeō'.
Sample Sentences
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Tiuj libroj estis tiel grasmakulaj, ili certe absorbis en sin tutajn torentojn da larmoj. (Those books were so greasy, they must have absorbed whole torrents of tears.) [1909, L. L. Zamenhof, “Supo el kolbasaj bastonetoj”, in Fabeloj de Andersen [Andersen's Fables], translation of original by Hans Christian Andersen:]
Translations
absorb, to suck up or drink in
engross, to engage completely