Latin

Verb

abeō ‎(present infinitive abīre, perfect active abiī, supine abitum); irregular conjugation

1. I depart, go away, go off.
2. I am transformed, metamorphosed.
3. I retire from office.
4. I pass from owner to owner.
5. (astronomy) I set.

Inflection

Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to abiī, but occasionally appears as abīvī.

Derived terms

• ē mediō abeō

References

• abeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • they disperse in different directions: in diversas partes or simply diversi abeunt, discedunt
    
  • to fly aloft; to be carried into the sky: sublimem or sublime (not in sublime or sublimiter) ferri, abire
    
  • to go out of sight, disappear: abire ex oculis, e conspectu alicuius
    
  • to depart this life: (ex) vita excedere, ex vita abire
    
  • to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
    
  • the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
    
  • to go into exile: exsulatum ire or abire
    
  • to give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office): abire magistratu