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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of imbuō.
Participle
imbūtus (feminine imbūta, neuter imbūtum); first/second-declension participle
- moistened, imbued
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “imbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- imbutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or rudem esse)
- to have received a superficial education: litteris leviter imbutum or tinctum esse
- to be ignorant of even the elements of logic: dialecticis ne imbutum quidem esse
- to be tinged with superstition: superstitione imbutum esse