The corpus record — Latin

absorbeo

to swallow down any thing

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Where it lives

De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ab-sorbĕo — Lewis & Short

ab-sorbĕo, bui, rarely psi, ptum (absorbui,

Plin. 9, 35, 58:

I absorpsi, Luc. 4, 100; cf. Vel. Long. 2233 P.), 2, v. a., to swallow down any thing, to devour.

I Lit.: unda legiones, Naev. B. Pun. 4, 16: oceanus vix videtur tot res tam cito absorbere potuisse, Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67: placentas, Hor. S. 2, 8, 24; so id. ib. 2, 3, 240 K. and H. (al. obsorbere and exsorbere): unionem, Plin. l. l. (Sill. ob-): res ad victum, to devour, Cic. Rep. 2, 5.—

II Trop., to engross, absorb: hunc absorbuit aestus gloriae, Cic. Brut. 81; so id. Leg. 2, 4, 9: ipse ad sese jamdudum vocat, et quodam modo absorbet orationem meam, and, as it were, eats up my discourse (i. e. wishes it to treat of him only), id. Sest. 6, 13: ea (meretrix) acerrume aestuosa absorbet, devours (i. e. squanders one's property, the figure taken from the sea), Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 67.

In the wild

absorberet Cicero, De Republica 2.10
absorberi Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 1.9
absorbet Tertullian, De Corona 10
absorbeatur Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 21.1
absorbendos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.35.p8
absorbet Silius Italicus, Punica 6.237

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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