Where does “absorb” come from?
Absorb comes from Middle French absorber, from Latin absorbeo, formed from the prefix ab- and a root related to Proto-Indo-European srebʰ-, meaning to sip or drink in.
absorb (English): To include so that it no longer has separate...
Definitions
- To include so that it no longer has separate...
Ancestry of “absorb”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | absorber | — |
| 2 | Latin | absorbeō | to swallow down, devour |
| 3 | Latin | sorbeo | I suck in, drink up |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | sorβeō | to suck in |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | srobʰéyeti | to be sipping, sucking; to cause to sip, suck |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |