desumpsit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quasdam naturales dotes, quia illum sibi celebrandum luxuria desumpsit. 'Quid ergo? ulli loco indicendum est odium?' Minime..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...itaque tibi puta dicere: 'non te solum fortuna desumpsit sibi, quem tam gravi afficeret iniuria; nulla domus..."