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abripio
abripio
Latin
Verb
abripiō (present infinitive abripere, perfect active abripuī, supine abreptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I take away (by violence); snatch, drag or tear off or away.
- (figuratively, of rivers) I wash, blow away.
- (figuratively) I carry off, remove, detach.
- (figuratively) I squander, dissipate.
Inflection
Descendants
- English: abreption
References
- abripio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abripio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abripio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi
- to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi