Where does “imbibe” come from?
Imbibe comes from Old French imbiber, from Latin imbibo meaning to drink in, from Latin in- combined with a root from Proto-Indo-European peh₃- meaning to drink.
imbibe (English): To drink; To take in; absorb
Definitions
- To drink; To take in; absorb
Ancestry of “imbibe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | imbiben | — |
| 2 | Latin | imbibō | — |
| 3 | Latin | bibō | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “imbibe”