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Latin
Etymology
con- (“together”) + lābor (“glide, slip, fall”)
Pronunciation
Verb
collābor (present infinitive collābī, perfect active collāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to collapse, fall in
Conjugation
This verb takes the future passive participle collābundus instead of *collābendus.
Derived terms
Descendants
Note: no inherited descendants. Mostly borrowed through its past participle, as if from the frequentative *collāpsāre.
References
- “collabor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- collabor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.