Where does “îmbibare” come from?
îmbibare (Romanian) comes from Romanian îmbiba, from French imbiber, from Latin imbibere, from Latin imbibo, from Latin im-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
îmbibare (Romanian): soaking
Definitions
- soaking
Ancestry of “îmbibare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | îmbiba | to soak |
| 2 | French | imbiber | to soak, saturate |
| 3 | Latin | imbibere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | imbibo | I drink in, imbibe; I assimilate; I conceive |
| 5 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |