Etymology

preabsorptive

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to preabsorption Full definition →

English absorptive ← Middle French absorber ← Old French assorbir
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Latinabsorbeō
  10. Old Frenchassorbir
  11. Middle Frenchabsorber
  12. Englishabsorb
  13. Englishabsorptive
  14. English todaypreabsorptive

From pre- + absorptive.

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