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
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...singuli singulos sibi consules adservandos adsidua opera desumunt; uni contionibus data nunc detinenda, nunc concienda plebs. Nec dilectum..."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..."