The story
- Latin · derived fromad-“to”
- French · derived fromadsorber
- English todayadsorb
From French adsorber, from Latin ad- (“to”) + sorbeō (“suck in”).
Words from the same roots
Latinad- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.