Talk:βάπτω

Is it possible to improve the etymology ? --Fsojic (talk) 19:20, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I found this. --Fsojic (talk) 20:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

What about this word? Even though Greek is a PIE-derived language, a lot of greek words have semitic roots:

خَرَّ bakk (ARABIC)

- atomizing - showering; spraying - small hole that lets liquid, etc flow into ot out of something; the act or instance of leaking - example of gas, etc leaking, or the amount of gas, etc that has leaked - a sluggish flow or exudation, or an infusion of oak-bark or other vegetable matter - puddle or marshy pool - sprinkle; spray; sparge - moisten by sprinkling - sprinkling; watering - spray or wet - sprinkling; watering - spatter or cause to spatter - sprinkling; spraying - make wet or dirty by splashing - sprinkling; spraying - sprinkle, squirt, arise or flow - spraying, showering, atomization - throw liquid in - sprinkling; splattering - scatter or moisten - scattering or sprinkle - spray, emanate, spout or flow - spraying; showering


 * It's not the type of vocabulary that tends to be borrowed, and the Greek goes back to before Arabic was much of an influence. Probably a coincidence. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:29, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

A possible etymology from a different PIE root
The semantic of báptō (βάπτω) is extremely near to that of "to imbue, to imbibe" since the object of the action is completely dipped into the liquid, for example for applying a tincture to it (which is a meaning that "bapto" also possesses).

βάπτω • (báptō) I dip, submerge I dye, colour

To imbibe means "to take in, to absorb". To imbue means "to wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality." Also imbue takes meaning from the word imbibe, which means "to absorb or to be filled with".

The Latin verb imbuō (present infinitive imbuere, perfect active imbuī, supine imbūtum) means: I wet, moisten, dip I tinge, stain, taint, infect, imbue

Which is the same as báptō.

Sanskrit pibati, with the same origin and meaning, is also nearer to báptō. It contains the same consonants, although the b and the p are rotated: PiBaTi -> BaPTo, which is not so uncommon.

pibati (Sanskrit)

From Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti (“to drink, to be drinking”), reduplication of *peh₃- (“to drink”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic пити (piti), Ancient Greek πίνω (pínō), Latin bibō.

पिबति • (píbati) (cl.1 P. root √pā) (figuratively) to imbibe, draw in, appropriate, enjoy, feast upon (with the eyes, ears etc.) to drink up, exhaust, absorb

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