English Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (absorb).

Pronunciation Edit

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
  • (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/
  • (file)

Adjective Edit

absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)

  1. Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
    Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

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Noun Edit

absorbent (plural absorbents)

  1. Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
    • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, page 225, Forgotten Books:
      In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year [] is low.
  2. (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
  3. (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
  4. (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

Descendants Edit

  • Polish: absorbent
  • Norwegian Bokmål: absorbent

Translations Edit

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References Edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorbent”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

Catalan Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Adjective Edit

absorbent m or f (masculine and feminine plural absorbents)

  1. absorbent

Noun Edit

absorbent m (plural absorbents)

  1. absorbent

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Verb Edit

absorbent

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of absorber

Latin Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

absorbent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of absorbeō

Norwegian Bokmål Edit

Etymology Edit

From English absorbent, from Latin absorbēns (swallowing, absorbing), present active participle of absorbeō (absorb), from both ab- (from, away from, off), from ab (from, away from, on, in), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (off, away), + and from sorbeō (I suck in, drink up), from Proto-Italic *sorβeō (to suck in), from Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti (to be sipping, sucking), from *srebʰ- (to sip, gulp, suck (in)) and *-éyeti, from *-yeti (creates transitive imperfective verbs).

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /absɔrˈbɛnt/, /apsɔrˈbɛnt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • Hyphenation: ab‧sor‧bent

Noun Edit

absorbent m (definite singular absorbenten, indefinite plural absorbenter, definite plural absorbentene)

  1. an absorbent or absorber (something which absorbs)
    • 1971, Teknisk Ukeblad:
      absorbenter eller reflektorer på vegger eller i tak
      absorbents or reflectors on walls or ceilings

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Polish Edit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology Edit

Borrowed from English absorbent,[1] from Latin absorbēns.[2] First attested in 1925.[3]

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Noun Edit

absorbent m inan

  1. (chemistry) absorbent, absorber (anything which absorbs)
    Synonyms: absorber, pochłaniacz

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See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “absorbent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. ^ Przemysł Chemiczny : miesięcznik poświęcony sprawom polskiego przemysłu chemicznego, wydawany staraniem Instytutu Badań Naukowych i Technicznych "Metan" we Lwowie[1], issue R. 9, nr 11/12, 1925, page 257

Further reading Edit

  • absorbent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • absorbent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • absorbent in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego