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English
Etymology
Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.
Pronunciation
Noun
abdo (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Abdomen.
CT chest abdo pelvis
Derived terms
Adjective
abdo (not comparable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Abdominal.
abdo pain
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Clipping of abdominal.
Pronunciation
Noun
abdo m (plural abdos)
- (informal, rare in the singular) ab (abdominal muscle)
- (informal) crunch (abdominal exercise)
- faire des abdos
See also
Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“away”) + -dō (“put”).
Pronunciation
Verb
abdō (present infinitive abdere, perfect active abdidī, supine abditum); third conjugation
- to hide, conceal, keep secret, cover, suppress, sheathe
- to remove, put away, set aside; banish
- (often with se) to betake oneself, go away, go and hide
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.12:
- Eos impeditos et inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.
- Attacking them encumbered with baggage, and not expecting him, he cut to pieces a great part of them; the rest betook themselves to flight, and concealed themselves in the nearest woods.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (banish): ablēgō, dēpellō, eximō, expellō, exterminō, pellō, prōiciō, relēgō, submoveō
- (conceal, hide): abscondō, cēlō, contegō, dēfodiō, dissimulō, occultō, occulo, operiō, adoperiō, recondō, tegō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, vēlō, mergō
- (go away): abambulō, abeō, abscēdō, dēcēdō, discēdō
- (remove): abdūcō, āmandō, āmōlior, āmoveō, dēmō, aspellō, auferō, dēmoveō, dētrahō, eximō, relēgō, legō, āvertō, removeō, submoveō
Antonyms
Derived terms
References
- “abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abdo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be quite engrossed in literary studies: se totum in litteras or se litteris abdere
- to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam