Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sorbefacient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sor-be-fa-cient
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing absorption.

Dated

noun

A medicine or substance that produces absorption.

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Etymology

From Latin sorbere (“to suck in, absorb”) + faciens, p.pr. of facere (“to make”).

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Inflected Forms

more sorbefacient (comparative) most sorbefacient (superlative) sorbefacients (plural)

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Questions

What does sorbefacient mean?
Producing absorption.
Where does sorbefacient come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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