adverb
sorbilō
sorbilō (not comparable)
Classical[ˈsɔr.bɪ.ɫoː]Ecclesiastical[ˈsɔr.bi.lo]
Meaning
- not comparableby sucking
nam mihi iam video propter te victitandum sorbilo
From now on, thanks to you, I see I will have to subsist on a liquid dietc. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.397
sorbĭlō, adv. id.,
I. sippingly; hence, transf., drop by drop, bit by bit (ante-class.):
victitare, i. e. poorly, sparely, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 185: senectutem ducat usque ad senium sorbilo, Caecil. ap. Fest. p. 339 Müll. (Com. Rel. v. 73 Rib.).Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sorbilō (-illō) —, —, āre
sorbeo, to sip : cyathos paulatim, T.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-éad Proto-Italic *-ōd Latin -ō Latin sorbilō From sorbilis (“able to be sucked up”) + -ō.