absumeret
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. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...dimicare vellet, diu cunctatus an omnes igni ferroque absumeret, tandem e sede sua prosiluit ac per ambitum lacus..."IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...spiritum, hoc destinatum damnatumque corpus publicarum utilitatium usus absumeret. ibi primum miser didici, quam multa nescientes, quam multa..."
