Latin

Verb

hauriō ‎(present infinitive haurīre, perfect active hausī, supine haustum); fourth conjugation

1. I draw (especially water), drain.
2. I drain, drink up, swallow; absorb.
3. (of blood) I spill, shed.
4. I devour, consume, exhaust, deplete, use up; engulf.
5. I tear up, pluck out, draw out; dig up, hollow out.
6. I draw, derive, borrow, take.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Portuguese: haurir
• Spanish: haurir

References

• haurio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• haurio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “haurio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be drowned in the eddies: gurgitibus hauriri
    
  • to draw from the fountain-head: e fontibus haurire (opp. rivulos consectari or fontes non videre)
    
  • to drain the cup of sorrow.[1: calamitatem haurire
    
  • to take one's fill of enjoyment: voluptates haurire
    
  • to undergo severe trouble, trials: magnum luctum haurire (without ex-)
    
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• exhaust in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911