abripio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

Descendants

  • English: abreption

References

  • 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