insumitur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →insumo, insumere, insumpsi, insumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spend, expend/employ (money/time/effort), devote; consume, take in/up; assume;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...tumor. illa vero admiranda sedulitas, quod operi totus insumitur dies, in dominorum reditus ablata supplentur. age, si obsequi..." - P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...rerum vel hominum vel temporum satis operae insumitur. Sed expetuntur quos rhetoras vocant; quorum professio quando primum..."