imbibo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈim.bi.boː/, [ˈɪmbɪboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈim.bi.bo/, [ˈimbibo]

Verb

imbibō (present infinitive imbibere, perfect active imbibī); third conjugation, no supine stem

1. to drink in, imbibe
2. to assimilate
3. to conceive (an idea)

Conjugation

Conjugation of imbibō (third conjugation, no supine stem)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	imbibō	imbibis	imbibit	imbibimus	imbibitis	imbibunt
	imperfect	imbibēbam	imbibēbās	imbibēbat	imbibēbāmus	imbibēbātis	imbibēbant
	future	imbibam	imbibēs	imbibet	imbibēmus	imbibētis	imbibent
	perfect	imbibī	imbibistī	imbibit	imbibimus	imbibistis	imbibērunt, imbibēre
	pluperfect	imbiberam	imbiberās	imbiberat	imbiberāmus	imbiberātis	imbiberant
	future perfect	imbiberō	imbiberis	imbiberit	imbiberimus	imbiberitis	imbiberint
passive	present	imbibor	imbiberis, imbibere	imbibitur	imbibimur	imbibiminī	imbibuntur
	imperfect	imbibēbar	imbibēbāris, imbibēbāre	imbibēbātur	imbibēbāmur	imbibēbāminī	imbibēbantur
	future	imbibar	imbibēris, imbibēre	imbibētur	imbibēmur	imbibēminī	imbibentur
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	imbibam	imbibās	imbibat	imbibāmus	imbibātis	imbibant
	imperfect	imbiberem	imbiberēs	imbiberet	imbiberēmus	imbiberētis	imbiberent
	perfect	imbiberim	imbiberīs	imbiberit	imbiberīmus	imbiberītis	imbiberint
	pluperfect	imbibissem	imbibissēs	imbibisset	imbibissēmus	imbibissētis	imbibissent
passive	present	imbibar	imbibāris, imbibāre	imbibātur	imbibāmur	imbibāminī	imbibantur
	imperfect	imbiberer	imbiberēris, imbiberēre	imbiberētur	imbiberēmur	imbiberēminī	imbiberentur
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	imbibe	—	—	imbibite	—
	future	—	imbibitō	imbibitō	—	imbibitōte	imbibuntō
passive	present	—	imbibere	—	—	imbibiminī	—
	future	—	imbibitor	imbibitor	—	—	imbibuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		imbibere	imbibisse	—	imbibī	—	—
participles		imbibēns	—	—	—	—	imbibendus, imbibundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		imbibendī	imbibendō	imbibendum	imbibendō	—	—

Descendants

• Catalan: embeure
• Old French: embeivre, embeire
  • French: emboire
• Italian: imbevere
• Occitan: embeure, embéver
• Portuguese: embeber
• Spanish: embeber
• → French: imbiber
  • → Romanian: îmbiba
• → Italian: imbibire
• → Middle English: imbiben
  • English: imbibe

References

• “imbibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imbibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imbibo 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 imbibing false opinions: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
    
  • to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmbĭbĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 567