seep
Significado (Inglés)
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- To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- To diminish or wane away slowly.
- (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
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Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/siːp/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
In summary
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”). See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
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