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
- L
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..." - L
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..."