Dictionary formabeo, abire, abii, abitum
Translation
go away, depart, leave; pass away, cease
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Examples
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Go away and do not come back.
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The soldier went away from the camp.
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He wanted to leave but was not able to.
festus .
The feast day passes quickly.
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After the battle the enemy went away.
Abeo, abire, abii, abitum is ab plus eo, and it inherits the parent verb's whole irregular conjugation: abeo, abis, abit, abimus, abitis, abeunt, imperfect abibam, future abibo. The perfect abii is contracted from abivi.
That contraction sets the trap this corpus keeps springing. Abit is present, "he goes away"; abiit is perfect, "he went away". One letter, two tenses, and no other signal in the word itself. Beyond physical departure, abeo does time passing (dies abiit) and one thing turning into another - in vanum abire, "to come to nothing", abire in saxum, "to turn to stone". The imperative abi is blunt, closer to "clear off" than to "please leave".
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 12: abeo, rectus, brevis and 11 more words.