consumpsimus
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...inanis cerne lacertos. 275usus abit uitae, bellis consumpsimus aeuum:ad mortem dimitte senes. en inproba uota:non duro..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...redimus, silentioque compositi reliquas noctis horas male soporati consumpsimus. <. . .> [CIV] LICHAS: "Videbatur mihi secundum quietem Priapus dicere: Encolpion..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...amisimus modum et gratiam rei nimia captatione consumpsimus. LII. Est in exemplis allegoria, si non praedicta ratione ponantur..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quasi visus conscientia acerbior esset, tota corpora morsibus consumpsimus. subit interim horror ex facto et taedium ac detestatio..."