absumat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →absumo, absumere, absumpsi, absumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spend, waste, squander, use up; take up (time); consume; exhaust, wear out;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...deinde non tantum habet uirium ut quod euocauit absumat: ob hoc diutius corpuscula emanare solita et efflari terra..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fieri potest diffusa flamma magnam partem urbis absumat, Fidenas inde aut Gabios aliamve quam urbem quaesituri sumus..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...redditurus; edicat, quid absumpserit. Ita fiet, ut non absumat, quod pudeat dicere. Praeterea futuri principes, velint nolint, sciant..."