The story
- Latin · derived fromsorbere“to suck”
- English todaychemosorb
Blend of chemo- (“chemical”) + adsorb, from Latin sorbere (“to suck”)
Words from the same roots
Latinsorbere all →
sorbefacient
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
chemosorb
Today it means: to chemisorb Full definition →
Latin sorbere