imbibo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈim.bi.boː/, [ˈɪmbɪboː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈim.bi.bo/, [ˈimbibo]
Verb
imbibō (present infinitive imbibere, perfect active imbibī); third conjugation, no supine stem
- I drink in, imbibe
- I assimilate
- I conceive (an idea)
Conjugation
| Conjugation of imbibō (third conjugation, no supine stem) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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 |
| imperfect | imbiberer | imbiberēris, imbiberēre | imbiberētur | imbiberēmur | imbiberēminī | imbiberentur | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | imbibe | — | — | imbibite | — |
| future | — | imbibitō | imbibitō | — | imbibitōte | imbibuntō | |
| passive | present | — | imbibere | — | — | imbibiminī | — |
| future | — | imbibitor | imbibitor | — | — | imbibuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | imbibere | imbibisse | — | imbibī | — | — | |
| participles | imbibēns | — | — | — | — | imbibendus, imbibundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| imbibendī | imbibendō | imbibendum | imbibendō | — | — | ||
Descendants
- Catalan: embeure
- Old French: embeivre, embeire
- French: emboire
- Italian: imbevere
- Occitan: embeure, embéver
- Portuguese: embeber
- Spanish: embeber
- → French: imbiber
- → Romanian: îmbiba
- → Italian: imbibire
- → Middle English: imbiben
- English: imbibe
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be imbibing false opinions: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
- to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
- to be imbibing false opinions: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ĭmbĭbĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 567