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
- C
Epaminondas
Cornelius Nepos
"...posset atque contendere. In armis vero plurimum studii consumebat. Ad hanc corporis firmitatem plura etiam animi bona accesserant..." - L
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..."