adsumpserat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adsumo, adsumere, adsumpsi, adsumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
take (to/up/on/from), adopt/raise, use; assume/receive; insert/add; usurp/claim;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...misera de sede volenti exire, utque novas umeris adsumpserat alas, subvolat atque iterum corpus super aequora mittit. pluma..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...acceptae libertatis memoria. etenim uxoris quoque consilium adsumpserat, muliebre ac deterius: quippe ultro metum intentabat, multosque astitisse libertos..."