abdo
See also: Abdo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæbdəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Clipping of abdominal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ab.do/
Noun
abdo m (plural abdos)
See also
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈab.doː/, [ˈäbd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈab.do/, [ˈäbd̪o]
Verb
abdō (present infinitive abdere, perfect active abdidī, supine abditum); third conjugation
- to hide, conceal, keep secret, cover, suppress, sheathe
- to remove, put away, set aside; banish
- (often with se) to betake oneself, go away, go and hide
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.12:
- Eos impeditos et inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.
- Attacking them encumbered with baggage, and not expecting him, he cut to pieces a great part of them; the rest betook themselves to flight, and concealed themselves in the nearest woods.
- Eos impeditos et inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (banish): ablēgō, dēpellō, eximō, expellō, exterminō, pellō, prōiciō, relēgō, submoveō
- (conceal, hide): abscondō, cēlō, contegō, dēfodiō, dissimulō, occultō, occulo, operiō, adoperiō, recondō, tegō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, vēlō, mergō
- (go away): abambulō, abeō, abscēdō, dēcēdō, discēdō
- (remove): abdūcō, āmandō, āmōlior, āmoveō, dēmō, aspellō, auferō, dēmoveō, dētrahō, eximō, relēgō, legō, āvertō, removeō, submoveō
Antonyms
References
- “abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abdo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be quite engrossed in literary studies: se totum in litteras or se litteris abdere
- to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam
- to be quite engrossed in literary studies: se totum in litteras or se litteris abdere
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