consumerentur
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;
pl. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...studiique in lucem non prolata situ quodam secreti consumerentur. III. Sciat autem, si quis haec forte minus adhuc..."Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...turris, tormenta flammam conciperent et prius haec omnia consumerentur, quam, quemadmodum accidisset, animadverti posset. Nostri repentina fortuna permoti..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...possessiones Cordubensium in conspectu suo rapinis, ferro flammaque consumerentur. Marcellus cum confligere miserrimum putaret, quod et victoris..."