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
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..."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..."