sorbente
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sorbeo, sorbere, sorbui, sorbitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
drink, absorb;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...acerrumae. apage istas a me sorores, quae hominum sorbent sanguinem. omnis ad perniciem instructa domus opime atque opipare..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...lacu, stridit coquiturque ardente veneno. nec modus est, sorbent avidae praecordia flammae, caeruleusque fluit toto de corpore sudor..."