The corpus record — Latin

adbibo

adbibo · v. a

to drink

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Where it lives

Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ad-bĭbo — Lewis & Short

ad-bĭbo, bĭbi, bĭbĭtum, 3, v. a.ad, intens.,

I to drink (not in Cic.).

I Lit.: quando adbibero, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 58; so Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8; Gell. 2, 22.—

II Trop., of discourse, to drink in, Plaut. Mil. Gl. 3, 3, 10 (cf. devorare dicta, id. As. 3, 3, 59, and Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 14; Sid. Carm. 16, 126).—Hence of instruction, to drink in eagerly, to listen to attentively: nunc adbibe puro Pectore verba, puer, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 67.

In the wild

adbibere Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.2.5
adbibi Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.22.25
adbibero Plautus, Stichus 2.2
adbibere Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.3
adbibit Terence, Heautontimorumenos 2.1

Where it came from

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