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
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...animo, quom ille et cura et sumptu absumitur! dum tibi fit quod placeat, ille ringitur: tu rideas, prior..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quam uxor uestita? sed in purpura, quae teritur absumitur, iniustam quidem sed aliquam tamen causam tenacitatis uideo..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...alter et tertius dies cunctatione coeuntium absumitur. Ut turbae placuit, considunt armati. Silentium per sacerdotes, quibus..."