The corpus record — Latin

ab-sĭlĭo

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What it meant

ab-sĭlĭo — Lewis & Short

ab-sĭlĭo, ii and ui, no

I sup., 4, v. n. and a. [salio], to leap or spring away, to leap off: procul, Luer. 6, 1217.—With acc. rei (as in Gr. feu/gein ti): nidos tepentes absiliunt (aves), fly from their warm nests, Stat. Th. 6, 97.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.