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Latin
Verb
abolēre
- inflection of aboleō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin abolēre, present active infinite of aboleō (“I retard, destroy, abolish”), from both ab- (“away, from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from *oleō (“I grow”), from Proto-Italic *oleō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oléye-, from *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abʊˈleːrə/
- Rhymes: -eːrə
- Hyphenation: a‧bo‧le‧re
Verb
abolere (passive aboleres, imperative aboler, present tense abolerer, simple past abolerte, past participle abolert, present participle abolerende, verbal noun abolering)
- (literary, rare, transitive) to abolish (to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice)
- Synonyms: avskaffe, gjøre ende på, fjerne
1918, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter V,1, page 261:den ved senere erklæringer formentlig modificerede og i aarenes løb i sig selv abolerede tirade «spreta juvenili levitate»- the tirade «spreta juvenili levitate», which was probably modified by later declarations and over the years in itself abolished in itself
References
- “abolere” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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