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abripio

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Latin

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Etymology

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From ab- (from, away from) +‎ rapiō (grab, seize, snatch).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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abripiō (present infinitive abripere, perfect active abripuī, supine abreptum); third conjugation -variant

  1. to take away (by violence); snatch, drag or tear off or away
  2. (figuratively, of rivers) to wash, blow away
  3. (figuratively) to carry off, remove, detach
  4. (figuratively) to squander, dissipate

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • English: abreption

References

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  • abripio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abripio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abripio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi