consumit
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. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...perde decem. LXXVII In omnibus Vacerra quod conclavibus consumit horas et die toto sedet, cenaturit Vacerra, non cacaturit..."- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...larvalem habitum nudis ossibus cohaerentium. Mors nos aut consumit aut exuit; emissis meliora restant onere detracto, consumptis nihil..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...aqua dico? Ignis, qui omma consumit, quaedam creat et, quod uideri non potest simile ueri, tamen uerum..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uehementior intra extrema ueris niues mollit, quas ante consumit quam tumescere Nilus incipiat; reliquo uero aestatis minuitur..." - L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...naturale est non decrescit mora: dolorem dies longa consumit. Licet contumacissimum, cotidie insurgentem et contra remedia efferuescentem, tamen..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...omnia quae exulcerant uitium, aeque cauere lassitudinem corporis; consumit enim quidquid in nobis mite placidumque est et acria..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...concinnat et maiorem dierum partem in aeruginosis lamellis consumit? qui in ceromate (nam, pro facinus! ne Romanis quidem..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...spatium videatur obire, annua sol in quo consumit tempora cursu. non, inquam, simplex his rebus reddita causast..."