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
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...redimus, silentioque compositi reliquas noctis horas male soporati consumpsimus. <. . .> [CIV] LICHAS: "Videbatur mihi secundum quietem Priapus dicere: Encolpion..."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..."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..."