desumo
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -umo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈsuː.moː/
Verb
dēsūmō (present infinitive dēsūmere, perfect active dēsūmpsī, supine dēsūmptum); third conjugation
- I 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
Inflection
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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