Latin

Verb

ēripiō ‎(present infinitive ēripere, perfect active ēripuī, supine ēreptum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I rescue.
2. I snatch away.
3. I escape.

Inflection

Derived terms

• agnum lupo eripere velle (to wish the impossible, literally: to wish to rescue a lamb from a wolf)

Descendants

• Old Provençal: erebre

References

• eripio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eripio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “eripio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to deprive a man of the chance of doing a thing: facultatem, potestatem alicui eripere, adimere
    
  • to rescue from peril: aliquem ex periculo eripere, servare
    
  • to undeceive a person: alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere
    
  • to free a person from his pain: dolorem alicui eripere (Att. 9. 6. 4)
    
  • to deprive a person of hope: spem alicui adimere, tollere, auferre, eripere
    
  • to rob a people of its freedom: libertatem populo eripere
    
  • to rescue some one from the hands of the enemy: eripere aliquem e manibus hostium