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absorbator

Pronunciation: /absɔrˈbɑːtʊr/

“absorbator” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. an absorber or absorbent (something which absorbs)

Etymology

From absorbere + -ator, first part from Latin absorbēre (“absorb”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”), + and from sorbeō (“to suck in, drink up”), from Proto-Italic *sorβeō (“to suck in”), from Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti (“to be sipping, sucking”), from *srebʰ- (“to sip, gulp, suck…

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