desumes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desumo, desumere, desumpsi, desumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
choose, pick out, select, take; pick (fight); take for/upon one's self (L+S);
sg. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples

Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...hunc quasso moenibus ignem. nec tibi digna, soror, desum ad conubia frater primus et ecce fero quatioque hanc..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...neque enim, cum lectulus aut me porticus excepit, desum mihi. 'rectius hoc est; hoc faciens vivam melius..."
