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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈzu.mo/, (traditional) /deˈsu.mo/
- Rhymes: -umo
- Hyphenation: de‧sù‧mo
Verb
desumo
- first-person singular present indicative of desumere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + sūmō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dēsūmō (present infinitive dēsūmere, perfect active dēsūmpsī, supine dēsūmptum); third conjugation
- to choose, select
- Synonyms: dēligō, adoptō, optō, dēstinō, sēpōnō, legō, ēligō, capiō, creō, sūmō
59 BC–AD 17,
Titus Livius,
The History of Rome 4,55:
- duo singuli singulos sibi consules adseruandos adsidua opera desumunt
- two of them choose each a consul whose labour is to be beheld unremittingly
Giovanni Aurelio Rimini,
Sermonum Libri :
- nunc semen instituo, unde mihi spes est non vana tuarum mox rerum cumulo desumere frugem
- I plant seeds now and I hope soon to select a heap of their produce for you
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “desumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.