English
abreption
Abreption comes from Latin abreptus ‘taken away or snatched forcibly away or with…’, and goes back to abripiō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabripiō‘snatch away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabreptus‘taken away or snatched forcibly away or with violence, torn away, dragged away’perfect passive participle of abripiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1751abreption
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabripiō‘snatch away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabreptus‘taken away or snatched forcibly away or with violence, torn away, dragged away’perfect passive participle of abripiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1751abreption
Earliest quotation: 1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote: “Who now and then are under an error, having…”
A compound of ab ‘away’ + rapiō ‘snatch’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ‘off, away’
Proto-Italic *ap ‘from, off, away’
Latin ab ‘away’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- ‘to take away, snatch’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥h₁pyéti
Proto-Italic *rapjō ‘to seize, take away’
Latin rapiō ‘snatch’
Every English word from Latin abripiō
Today it means
noun A snatching away.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin abripiō / abreption