desumunt
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);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...singuli singulos sibi consules adservandos adsidua opera desumunt; uni contionibus data nunc detinenda, nunc concienda plebs. Nec dilectum..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...saepe inter se maiores minoresque quasi cursum certamenque desumunt; rursus omnes in eundem locum appulsae, qua steterunt promovent..."