Imbibition
/ˌɪm.bɪˈbɪʃ.ən/noun
The act or process of absorbing or soaking up a liquid.
Did you know?Imbibition comes from Latin *imbibere*, literally “to drink in,” and the same root family also gave English the word *beverage*—so even a lab term still carries the memory of thirst and ritual drinking.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pei̯-
“to drink”
Latin
Latin
bibere
“to drink”
Latin
Latin
imbibere
“to drink in, absorb”
Late Latin
Latin
imbibitio
“a drinking in, absorption”
Middle English
English
imbibition
“the act of drinking in or absorbing”