abdo

Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæbdəʊ/

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abdo (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Abdomen.

   CT chest abdo pelvis

• acute abdo

abdo (not comparable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Abdominal.

   abdo pain

• Boda, Obad., boa'd, boad, doab

Clipping of abdominal.

• IPA^(key): /ab.do/

abdo m (plural abdos)

1. (informal, rare in the singular) ab (abdominal muscle)
2. (informal) crunch (abdominal exercise)

   faire des abdos

• pec

From ab- (“away”) +‎ -dō (“put”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈab.doː/, [ˈäbd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.do/, [ˈäbd̪o]

abdō (present infinitive abdere, perfect active abdidī, supine abditum); third conjugation

1. to hide, conceal, keep secret, cover, suppress, sheathe
2. to remove, put away, set aside; banish
3. (often with se) to betake oneself, go away, go and hide
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.12:

     Eos impeditos et inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.

     Attacking them encumbered with baggage, and not expecting him, he cut to pieces a great part of them; the rest betook themselves to flight, and concealed themselves in the nearest woods.

• (banish): ablēgō, dēpellō, eximō, expellō, exterminō, pellō, prōiciō, relēgō, submoveō
• (conceal, hide): abscondō, cēlō, contegō, dēfodiō, dissimulō, occultō, occulo, operiō, adoperiō, recondō, tegō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, vēlō, mergō
• (go away): abambulō, abeō, abscēdō, dēcēdō, discēdō
• (remove): abdūcō, āmandō, āmōlior, āmoveō, dēmō, aspellō, auferō, dēmoveō, dētrahō, eximō, relēgō, legō, āvertō, removeō, submoveō

• (antonym(s) of “conceal”): patefaciō, adaperiō, aperiō
• (antonym(s) of “go away”): accēdō, adeō, adventō

• “abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abdo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• abdo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be quite engrossed in literary studies: se totum in litteras or se litteris abdere
    
  • to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam