absumitur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...animo, quom ille et cura et sumptu absumitur! dum tibi fit quod placeat, ille ringitur: tu rideas, prior..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quibus magna in hoc pars aetatis absumitur taceam, declamitare in schola et tantum laboris in rebus falsis consumere..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...rictus, redeunt umerique manusque, ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues: de bove nil superest formae nisi candor..." - P
Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...maerens, inconsolabile vulnus mente gerit tacita lacrimisque absumitur omnis et, quarum fuerat magnum modo numen, in illas extenuatur..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...rictus, redeunt umerique manusque, ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues: de bove nil superest formae nisi candor..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quam uxor uestita? sed in purpura, quae teritur absumitur, iniustam quidem sed aliquam tamen causam tenacitatis uideo..." - P
Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...alter et tertius dies cunctatione coeuntium absumitur. Ut turbae placuit, considunt armati. Silentium per sacerdotes, quibus..."