desumo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈzu.mo/, (traditional) /deˈsu.mo/
- Rhymes: -umo
- Hyphenation: de‧sù‧mo
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈsuː.moː/, [d̪eːˈs̠uːmoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈsu.mo/, [d̪eˈs̬uːmo]
Verb
dēsūmō (present infinitive dēsūmere, perfect active dēsūmpsī, supine dēsūmptum); third conjugation
- to choose, select
- 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, The History of Rome 4,55:
- duo singuli singulos sibi consules adseruandos adsidua opera desumunt
- two of them choose each a consul whose labour is to be beheld unremittingly
- duo singuli singulos sibi consules adseruandos adsidua opera desumunt
- Giovanni Aurelio Rimini, Sermonum Libri :
- nunc semen instituo, unde mihi spes est non vana tuarum mox rerum cumulo desumere frugem
- I plant seeds now and I hope soon to select a heap of their produce for you
- nunc semen instituo, unde mihi spes est non vana tuarum mox rerum cumulo desumere frugem
Conjugation
References
- “desumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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