consumebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consumo, consumere, consumpsi, consumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
burn up, destroy/kill; put end to; reduce/wear away; annul; extinguish (right);; devour/swallow up/consume/eat/use up/exhaust/expend; spend; squander/waste;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Epaminondas
Cornelius Nepos
"...posset atque contendere. In armis vero plurimum studii consumebat. Ad hanc corporis firmitatem plura etiam animi bona accesserant..."Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...huiusdiem cena. " Minime; ualde enim frugaliter uiuebat; nihil consumebat nisinoctem. ' Itaque Pedo dicentibus illum quibusdam auarum et sordidum..."